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authorJohannes Stoelp <johannes.stoelp@gmail.com>2024-02-16 00:29:35 +0100
committerJohannes Stoelp <johannes.stoelp@gmail.com>2024-02-16 00:29:35 +0100
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awk: split on multiple tokens
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@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ echo 'a b c d e f' | awk '{ print $NF $(NF-1) }'
```
Access last fields with arithmetic on the `NF` number of fields variable.
+### Split on multiple tokens
+```bash
+echo 'a,b;c:d' | awk -F'[,;:]' '{ printf "1=%s | 4=%s\n", $1, $4 }'
+```
+Use regex as field separator.
+
### Capture in variables
```bash
# /proc/<pid>/status