AWK - Find - Delete Second Field/Column - One Liner 25 - 26

AWK

awk '/PATTERN/ {print "PATTERN FOUND"}' /var/awk_programming_test

This programming one liner allows you to search for PATTERN in awk_programming_test file. Once the pattern is found, the print statement is invoked .

AWK - Delete second column

Programming One Liner 26

awk ' BEGIN{FS=",";} { $2= ""; print}' /var/awk_programming_test

This programming one liner allows you to delete the second field in the specified CSV and the results are displayed on the screen. If the file /var/awk_programming_test had the following contents:

redhat,linux web server
fedora,linux web server
xp,windows dedicated server
windows 98,windows dedicated server
solaris,sun web server

Then invoking the one liner # 26 will produce the following results

redhat
fedora
xp
windows 98
solaris

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