OT: Shell Script using Awk

[Sahil Tandon]

David Allen <the.real.david.allen at gmail.com> 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
> ...

A small sh script:

#!/bin/sh
awk ' {
for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
 printf("%s ", $i)
 if (i % 7 == 0) { printf("\n") }
}
if (NF % 7 != 0) { printf("\n") }
} ' input 

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>