Change the field separator in awk

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

awk -F ":" '{print $1}'

# or if you want to do it programatically

awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } { print $1 }'

# or you can also use a regular expression as a field separator.
# The following will print "bar" by using a regular expression to set the number "10" as a separator.

echo "foo 10 bar" | awk -F'[0-9][0-9]' '{print $2}'

awk | Luis Cacho

Change the field separator in awk