Is it possible to use an awk if condition to print a specific column if the chosen column is only values or characters? below is an example: echo "This is example test 1 for VAL1 value = int or VAL2 = string" | awk ‘{if ($5 == [0-9]) print $10 else print $14}’ OR: echo… Read More AWK print specific column if chosen column is only numeric else print another column AIX

I have a file file with content like: stringa 8.0.1.2 stringx stringb 12.01.0.0 stringx I have to get a substring from field 2 (first two values with the dot). I am currently doing cat file | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk -F. ‘{print $1"."$2}’ and getting the expected output: 8.0 12.01 The query is how… Read More Extract substring from a field with single awk in AIX