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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reverse search in awk script Post 302245028 by a2156z on Thursday 9th of October 2008 07:26:41 AM
Old 10-09-2008
I am unsure what do you need the output, line number ? if that, just use grep is ok.
grep -n "$A" "$file_name" | grep "$B" | awk '{print $1}'
Or the filed is specified? if that,
awk '$0~/A/ && $i == B{print NR}' "$file_name"
Last edited by a2156z; 10-09-2008 at 08:32 AM..
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