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Thanks, Jim. Was able to get it using your awk:

variable2=`find . -name "rpbol*" -print | xargs grep -li $variable1`
variable3=`awk '{ if(FNR==2) {print substr($0,1,7); exit} }' $variable2`
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I need to create a script to extract some specific data from a file. I locate the file using the find command:

find . -name "rpbol*" -print | xargs grep -li [pattern to search for]

Once I...