AWK - Re: grabbing data from columns

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Re: grabbing data from columns

Ed Morton

2005-01-18, 3:57 pm

rudz wrote:
> am new to awk, have been asked to write a shell script to grab columns of
> data from a report,
>
> 1) The report contains a header which i have no use of, i need to trim it
> to get to the actual columns
> 2) two sample columns on the report looks like this
> Book Value Market Price
> ---------- -------------
> (6,825.51) 1.000 AUD
> 8,363.79 1.000 CAD
> (138.52) 1.000 CAD
> 45,454.08 1.000 GBP
> 68,533.42 1.000 GBP
> (12,675.93) 1.000 GBP
>
> can somebody please help and suggest an approach, any help would be
> greatly appreciated, thanks
>

awk 'NR>2' file

Ed.

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