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Old 08-21-2008
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Another way is to set the field separator to ": "

Code:
awk -F": " '$1 ~ /^uuid/ { uuid=$2 };  $1 ~ /^device-config/ && $3 == "/dev/sdc" { print uuid }'  dev.txt