awk question

[cmancre]

hello, a got this code that returns me the first colum off the file, but he change colum with space, i want to change colum with another char, like ";"

/usr/bin/awk '{ print $0 }' file

example: a;b;c;d

this will return "a" and not the full line

thanks

 

[PHV]

awk -F';' '{print $1}' file

You may also consider the cut command.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cmancre]

lol i think "cut" is more easy, im a bit spleppy today. Thanks anyway.