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Old 10-19-2006
napolayan napolayan is offline
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there is some minor defect with this code. i think the logic is ok. someone plz try n debug it. i am doing it in a hurry n hv to go now.

#!/bin/awk -f~
cat bc|while read line
do
x=`wc -l bc|awk '{print $1}'`
for ( k=( NR + 1 ) ; k<=x ; k++ )
{
if /$line/
then
sed 'k d' bc
fi
}
done



error:


awk: syntax error near line 2
awk: bailing out near line 2