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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk command Post 302209800 by kripssmart on Saturday 28th of June 2008 03:12:32 PM
Old 06-28-2008
awk command

hi Franklin52,

it will be of great help if you can explain me what the command quoted below will be doing exactly. I got this from one of your posts in the forum..

awk '{a[NR%4]=$0}/pattern/{print a[(NR+1)%4];exit}' file


can i know what a[NR%4]=$0 means...


thanks for your help..

Krips.
 

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