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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - if field is empty, move line to new file Post 302359931 by scriptr2be on Wednesday 7th of October 2009 06:35:48 PM
Old 10-07-2009
Sorry. I don't know what code tags are in Unix scripting but here is a sample data file:

"16","\\server\IP\SCAN\11119431.pdf","100-1115555-222","
00001","Docs","SMITH, JO","DC 1","FL","Administrator
","DK","DK","22222"

"16","\\server\IP\SCAN\88888892.pdf","101-2221140-009","
00001","Docs","LMN. Enterprises Inc.","DC 1","AK","Administ
rator","DK","DK",""

Each line above is one line. So there are 2 lines in the data file, for example. But in the example above, if the last field in each line does not contain a value, I want it to kick out to another file and remove it from the data file above. So in this example, the second line would be moved to a new file.

Hope that makes sense.
 

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