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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pattern find and delete Post 302929383 by Don Cragun on Saturday 20th of December 2014 03:56:18 AM
Old 12-20-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by protocomm
test this

Code:
awk -F- '{if (NF<4)print}' yourFile

On most systems, grep is smaller (and faster) than awk for something like this. But, if you want to use awk, it can be simplified to:
Code:
awk -F- 'NF<4' yourFile

But, if you're using a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
 

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