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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting get the fifth line of a text file into a shell script and trim the line to extract a WORD Post 302478743 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 08:46:58 PM
Old 12-08-2010
Code:
word=$( awk 'NR==5 { for(i=1;i<NF;i++)
    if ($i ~ /string1|string2|string3|string4|string5|string6/)
        { print $i; exit }
    }' infile )

Word will be blank or first of your 6 strings found on the 5th line
 

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sql::reservedwords::db2

SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::DB2 - Reserved SQL words by DB2

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::DB2->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved DB2 word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by DB2.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either DB2 5, 6, 7 or 8.

       is_reserved_by_db2v5( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 5.

       is_reserved_by_db2v6( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 6.

       is_reserved_by_db2v7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 7.

       is_reserved_by_db2v8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 8.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with DB2 versions that reserves $word.

       words
	   Returns a list with all reserved words.

EXPORTS

       Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

       is_reserved
       is_reserved_by_db2v5
       is_reserved_by_db2v6
       is_reserved_by_db2v7
       is_reserved_by_db2v8
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/>

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-28					      SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)
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