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Old 08-26-2008
simple awk help
Whats the syntax to find all lines that matches a text and print out specific fields after the match?

ex:
1: some random text
2: Full name: John E. Smith
3: some random text
4: Full name: Mary J. Lue
5: some random text

So I'd like to print out First names or last names or everything after matching "name:" how would I do that?
# 2  
Old 08-26-2008
Something like that ?
Code:
awk '/name:/ {sub(/.*name:/, ""); print}' inputfile

Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 08-27-2008
Hi,

We can get the sir name as follows:

awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} /name:/{print $3|"cut -f4 -d\" \"" }' names.txt


Regards,
Vinod.
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