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From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Supressing new-lines in awk output
Summary: define ORS=space
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <9061@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 22:47:36 GMT
References: <21638@conexch.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 9

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

If you have the new awk == nawk:
        nawk 'BEGIN{ORS=" "}; {print $1}' filename

John Rupley      rupley!local@megaron.arizona.edu