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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Put lines of a file in an array with awk Post 302417098 by aigles on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 01:09:59 PM
Old 04-28-2010
Rany, have you tried nawk instead of awk ?

A full example :
Code:
$ cat rany.awk
function read_file_into_array(file, array     ,status, record, count ) {
   count  = 0;
   while (1) {
      status = getline record < file
      if (status == -1) {
         print "Failed to read file " file;
         exit 1;
      }
      if (status == 0) break;
      array[++count] = record;
   }
   close(file);
   return count
}
BEGIN {
   records_count = read_file_into_array("input.txt", File)
   print "The file contains",records_count,"records.\n"
}
{
   printf "Record #%d [%s]\n\n", $1, File[$1];
}
$ cat input.txt
This is record 1
Line 2
Last line
$ awk -f rany.awk
The file contains 3 records.

2
Record #2 [Line 2]

1
Record #1 [This is record 1]

3
Record #3 [Last line]

^D
$

This is too much if you only want to print a specific line.
You can use the technique posted by frans or
Code:
sed -n "$line_number{p;q;}" input.txt

Jean-Pierre.
 

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