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Author Re: match pattern but print previous line
Pad

2006-10-12, 6:57 pm


>
> If you don't mind a trailing semicolon it's just:
>
> gsub(/[0-9][0-9]/,"&:")
>
>
Thanks Ed. I can take away the traling ':' with
cut cmd. But if I use the gsub cmd as per your suggestion , i get
syntax error.

echo 20000000c93b1cdc | awk '{ gsub (/[0-9][0-9]/,"&:") }'
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

Thanks
pad

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