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From: jimr@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: -F option for awk
Message-ID: <7370010@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 18:48:06 GMT
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The answer is to set up the output field separator to be a colon also.

For instance:

	awk -F":" 'OFS = ":" { print $1, $2 }' /etc/passwd

will print out the first two fields of the password file with the output
fields separated by colons.

Jim Rogers
Hewlett Packard Company