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Operating Systems Linux matching two fields Post 302369262 by Scott on Saturday 7th of November 2009 07:44:12 AM
Old 11-07-2009
It's just about the simplest piece of awk there is.

Did you use double quotes " by mistake, instead of single quotes ' ?

Please show the exact command you ran.
 

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