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Sep 172010
 

Multiple separators in awk

Answer:

Sometimes when you split a string using awk, you need to support more than 1 separators, you can use the -F option.

E.g.

# cat foo.txt | awk -F "[ ?]" '{print $7}'

Now the awk split by a space and by a ?.

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