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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Req 1-liner for Awk, et al to find str position Post 302436518 by Lemming42 on Monday 12th of July 2010 08:29:50 AM
Old 07-12-2010
Req 1-liner for Awk, et al to find str position

Hi, I'm trying to find the position of a series of numbers within a large text file. The numbers are separated by spaces.

This works fine:

Code:
type Huge_File.txt | gawk "{print index($0,"255")}"

But this does not:

Code:
type Huge_File.txt | gawk "{print index($0,"188 028 239 160 016 190 137 063")}"

I get this error:
Code:
gawk: cmd. line:2:                    ^ unexpected newline
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.

I'm looking for very specific numbers, so no regex needed. What's the proper incantation for a series of numbers?

Gawk is being called by another script, which is why I'm looking for a 1-liner.

I'm using GNU utilities for Win32, and I'm on Vista. The double-quotes are correct for Windows. Also, I have no particular preference for Awk and can use any other Unix util like Grep, Sed, Tr or whatever.

Thanks,
Lemming.

Last edited by pludi; 07-12-2010 at 09:33 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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