Hi ,
In shell script I wrote:
awk '$1 == "name" {print $2 }' /home/test/name.log

means in that file if first word is "name" than I print second word.
Problem is :
sometimes in that file , first word is "name" nothing is there as second word.
Actual name is in the next line as second word.

means if $2 is null i want third word in next line.

How to handle this situation

Try:

awk '$1 == "name" {if ($2 != "")
                     print $2 
                     else
                        {
                        getline
                        print $3
                        } 
                  }' /home/test/name.log

Thanks a lot
It is working fine