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Old 10-09-2008
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I want to search for a number found in the 4th column on a specific line in a file and store that value into a variable. This file contains over 7000 lines of data. The specific line I am looking for contains the letters 'OXT' This is why I was thinking of using awk to find the line that contains 'OXT' and then grab the number from the 4th column of that line only. Would that work with split?