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Question by ctyndall
Submitted on 10/8/2003
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I have a file that I want to add 7 blank spaces after the text that resides in the 16th field.  Fields are comma delimited.  Here is what i have but is not working
awk -F"," '{sub(/$16/, "       ");print}' FILE > FILE.OUT


Answer by paumonok
Submitted on 10/22/2003
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Try this instead:

awk -F"," "{$16=$16 "       ";print}' file > file.out

 

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