Re: ** OT : awk works only for first line
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:44:42 -0800
I think what you may be missing is that awk is a processing language that
is designed to handle whatever it gets from STDIN.
There's no need really to use it in a loop as you have done.
Mark has already shown how to do use awk.
Another tool you may be interested in is cut.
while read emp
do
echo $emp | cut -f1 -d:
done < emplis.txt
john_ray
joe_smith
bill_bates
jane_de
For some humorous surfing, google for 'useless use of cat'. :)
Jared
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