How to preserve the original whitespace between fields in awk?
If you want to preserve the whitespace you could also try the split function. In Gnu Awk version 4 the split function accepts 4 arguments, where the latter is the separators between the fields. For instance, echo “a 2 4 6″ | gawk ‘ { n=split($0,a,” “,b) a[3]=7 line=b[0] for (i=1;i<=n; i++) line=(line a[i] b[i]) … Read more