OT: Shell Script using Awk

[David Allen]

On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote:
>> My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need
>> to use awk to generate a report.
>>
>> I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to
>> keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that containing records,
>> each delimited by a single space.  I need to print those records in
>> columnar format, but with only 7 columns per line:
>>
>> record1  record2  record3  record4  record5  record6  record7
>> record08 record09 record10 record11 record12 record13 record14
>> ...
>>
>> Should be simple, but I'm getting nowhere.
>
> $ cat input
> col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14
>
> $ cat output.awk
> {
> 	print $1 " " $2 " "  $3 " "  $4 " "  $5 " "  $6 " "  $7
> 	print $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11 " " $12 " " $13 " " $14
> }
>
> $ cat intput | awk -f output.awk
> col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7
> col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14

Thanks for the reply, Jeremy, but that approach would require an
entirely manual approach, which isn't suitable for what I'm working
with.  Writing a script that's the same size as the data I'm working
with isn't an option.  ;-)