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From: itkin@mrspoc.UUCP (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Supressing new-lines in awk output
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <4569@mrspoc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 23:05:43 GMT
References: <21638@conexch.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@mrspoc (Steven List)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc., Mt. View, CA
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In article <21638@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
> Is there a way to supress the newline at the end of awk's print output?
> 
> Given:
> 
> 	awk '{print $1}' filename
>...
> Is there a way to cause each "$1" to be printed...
> such that the output would look like:
> 
> 	field1.1 field2.1 field3.1
> 
Yup - use the "printf" function instead of "print".  "printf" takes 
arguments like the C language function to permit more advanced formatting
of your output.

To solve this problem, use

	awk '{printf "%s ",$1}' filename

This will print the first field of each record followed by a space.  To
include the newline at the end of the entire list, use the following variant:

	awk '{printf "%s ",$1}END{printf "\n"}' filename
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