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As I said before, most filesystems DO NOT STORE a file creation date for files and there is no way to determine the date on which a file was created using standard interfaces. If the last...

You have a few issues that keep you from reaching your goal:

Most filesystems do not keep track of when a file was created; the struct stat st_ctime field stores the timestamp of the last file...

You haven't defined any variables in this awk script except FS and OFS. In an ERE, $l_test is looking for end of field 2 followed by the string l_test in field 2 (which it will NEVER find) and for...

care to give an example of what you are looking for? exact input and exact output samples would help.

Please use code tags for all code, data, and output.

awk is a powerful language for this sort of thing, you can match strings like grep, but you can also count the number of lines and columns,...

Assuming your code works correctly for your data:

recnum=4
grep "^03,.*,.*$" file.dat | cut -d"," -f2 | awk -v r_num=$recnum 'NR==r_num'

The reason for my caveat is your regex - looks...