awk puts newline between fields

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have

a='123, abc, def, ghi'
var1=`echo $a | awk -F", " '{print RS $1}'`
echo "something: $var1"

which outputs

something
123

how can I tell awk not to put a newline between fields? I want it to output:

something: 123
2

try using the printf() function without the newline char '\n'

3

but after I echo "something: $var1" I want to put $var1 in a database, and the newline causes errors there, so I need remove the newline first.

4

Hi,

I think it could be enough deleting 'RS'. Something like this:

var1=`echo $a | awk -F", " '{print $1}'`

Regards,

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5

yes, that worked, thank you :slight_smile: