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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parse tab delimited file, check condition and delete row Post 302702571 by empyrean on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 01:55:49 PM
Old 09-18-2012
I am not too familiar with awk.
This works perfect. I would love to understand this code. Can you explain briefly?
Thank you so much for the code
 

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