awk

[hammam02]

awk '{print $1}'

my output is

swiss
admin

i need swiss admin in the one line

 

[p5wizard]

man awk - look at printf

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[khalidaaa]

There is a special variable within awk called RS stands for Record Separator. It defaults into a newline. You need to change it to a space.

RS     input record separator (default newline)

awk 'BEGIN { RS = " " }
          { print $1 }' Input_File

All you need about awk can be found here:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/gawk.html

Regards,
Khalid

 

[vodkadrinker]

awk '{printf$1" "}'

 

[mrn]

awk '{print $1}'|paste --

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[olded]

If datafile contains:

swiss
admin

then this places everything on one line:

xargs < datafile