Hi all,

I have an input file like
trk 1 soft
trk 1 get
trk 1 get
trk 1 soft

Want to have output file contains line number of lines which have "soft" string from input like
1
4

Then, create new file from output to
ui 1 stop
ui 4 stop

Tried using with awk, still not got result.

Appreciate all your help. Thanks.

$ cat data
trk 1 soft
trk 1 get
trk 1 get
trk 1 soft
$ awk '/soft/ { print "this", NR, "that" }' data
this 1 that
this 4 that
$

Thanks Perderabo, that's so simple and great!

But, out put file have all in one line... I wish they are separated lines... each line for one command...

strange - my output is as Perderabo's:

this 1 that
this 4 that

It's working fine now. your output is what I expected. I got mistake when check output by echo command.

details expected output file I want is
tappman -c '#'mps.1 -l 1 stop
tappman -c '#'mps.1 -l 4 stop

so I used below command
awk '/SOFTBLOCK/ { print "tappman -c '#'mps.1 -l", NR, "stop" }' cicStatus > runApps

But it didn't work since command didn't accept ' ' covered #. Tried to use \ and "" to cover ', but it still not work.

Thanks for ur kind help.

sed -n '/soft/=' f | sed "s/.*/tappman -c '#'mps.1 -l & stop/"

awk -v qt="'" '/SOFTBLOCK/ { print "tappman -c " qt "#" qt "mps.1 -l", NR, "stop" }' cicStatus > runApps