Re: ** OT : awk works only for first line

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:44:42 -0800
Message-ID: <bf46380901280944l776f1efs38047e38a2b18c93_at_mail.gmail.com>

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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Received on Wed Jan 28 2009 - 11:44:42 CST