simple awk question

orahi001 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008

Hello,

I'm trying to use awk to print lines that match a regular expression.

I am using awk to print a record only if it contains N/A.

awk '/N/A/ {print $1}'

When executed the script returns "awk syntax error near line 1".

If I use /N//A/ it prints all records containing a "/", not just N/A

How can print the records with just the expresion N/A?

thanks

ghostdog74 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008

escape the extra slash

Code:

awk '/N\/A/ {print $1}' file

orahi001 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008

Thanks...it worked great

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