Thanks, Mark. You saved my time. It works for me if I change the initial i
to 1 (i=1), because I don't want to get $0 to be the output.
Greetings,
Marco
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:40 AM, mwillson <cdr....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 August 2012 19:40:02 UTC+1, Morning Star wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I have some string and numeric data in like this format (one line):
> > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
> > and i want the output like this:
> > 1 2 3
> > 4 5 6
> > 7 8 9
> > 10 11 12
> >
> >
> >
> > How do I do that in awk?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> > Marco
>
> Marco,
>
> Does the following work for you?
>
> BEGIN {
> splitat = 3
> }
> {
> for (i = 0; i <= NF; i++) {
> printf("%s ",$i)
> if ((i % splitat) == 0) printf("\n")
> }
> }
>
> Put into a file called split.awk and run with "awk -f split.awk
> your_input_file_name".
>
> -mark
>
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