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Is it possible to change the default field separator in awk?

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Mar 15, 20266673 views
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I'm always using awk to manipulate comma separated files, so the first line in my code is always changing the field separator to "," like so: Is it possible to change awk's defaults so that comma is the default FS? It's not a big problem, but it would just make things a bit neater. I tried googling…

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awk 'BEGIN {FS=","}
$2 < 20 {print $1}' myfile.csv

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To change awk default field separator, use the option ( being a simple character or a regular expression). You can also change this with the awk internal variable .

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