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Old 11-28-2005
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well.... they BOTH work just fine under Sun's 'nawk'.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerry405
I am trying to find all occurances of text within a certain column (col 13) that start with the character V
Based on the definition above:

Code:
nawk '$13 ~ /^V.*/' text.file