Help with AWK

Yoda · January 30, 2012, 1:46pm

I have a text file in unix with fields separated with "^^"

Example:-

bipin^^ajith
unix^^code

How can I use awk to print first and second fields from this file?

cat test.txt | awk -F"^^" ' { print $1 " " $2 } '

bartus11 · January 30, 2012, 2:31pm

awk -F"^" '{print $1 " " $3}' test.txt

joeyg · January 30, 2012, 4:05pm

$ cat sample12.txt
abc^^def
ghi^^jml

$ tr -s "^" <sample12.txt | awk -F"^" '{print $1 " " $2}'
abc def
ghi jml

$ tr -s "^" <sample12.txt | awk -F"^" '{print $1,$2}'
abc def
ghi jml