Hi,

I have a fixed with file, which have almost 10 records

Sample File:
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AR 100 TTT
BC 200 SSS
DA 199 YYY
AR 500 RRR
PO 300 QQQ
PB 800 PPP
PC 150 OOO
AR 111 CCC
AD 321 LLL

I Have to check for first two charactors and if its 'AR' i have to save those records to one file, say FILE1 or i have to save to yet another file,SAY FILE2

OUTPUT
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FILE1:
-------
AR 100 TTT
AR 500 RRR
AR 111 CCC

FILE2:
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BC 200 SSS
DA 199 YYY
PO 300 QQQ
PB 800 PPP
PC 150 OOO
AD 321 LLL

Can i achieve this using awk or is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance

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i think this command is not working, i am getting this error

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


i am new to shell scripting can anyone help me?

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

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