Gawk output separated by tab

cmccabe · December 21, 2015, 12:34pm

In the gawk below, I am trying to output the file tab-deliminated but don't think that is the correct syntax. Thank you :).

 gawk OFS='/t' '{sub(/-[0-9]+/,"",$2); ar[$2]=$0}
            END{n = asort(ar)
                for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
                     print ar}' file

Aia · December 21, 2015, 12:46pm

OFS='\t'

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cmccabe:

In the gawk below, I am trying to output the file tab-deliminated but don't think that is the correct syntax. Thank you :).
 gawk  '{sub(/-[0-9]+/,"",$2); ar[$2]=$0}
   END{n = asort(ar)
   for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
   print ar}' OFS='\t' file 

Note: Do you mean ORS?

cmccabe · December 21, 2015, 1:27pm

Thank you very much OFS='\t' was what I was doing wrong