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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using first word and print their contents using awk Post 302139939 by summer_cherry on Wednesday 10th of October 2007 03:12:16 AM
Old 10-10-2007
shell sed
Hi,
This one should be ok.

Code:
a=1;
while [ $a -le 1 ]
do
	echo "please input the character you would like to search,XX for exit"
	read var
	if [ $var = "XX" ]
	then
		a=2
	fi
	cat a | sed -n "/^$var/p"
done

 

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