Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!unh!pss
From: pss@unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Supressing new-lines in awk output
Summary: Use printf
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <911@unh.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 19:01:13 GMT
References: <21638@conexch.UUCP>
Organization: UNH Telecommunications
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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
> 
Try:

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

(You would need

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

to equal the unformatted awk "print" statement)  You can also do tricks with
setting a variable to be a space for, say 5 input lines and a newline on the
sixth for six column output.  Awk is really quite versatile (even oawk), if
you are stubborn enough!