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I was able to assign the results of the awk statement to a variable, but it looks like the supplied code only returns a result if the 2nd search criteria (blah) is in the 1st column. If the 2nd...

Thanks Joey for your response.

One additional question if you would, how would I then assign the value from the awk statement to a variable for later use in my script ?

I've done some due diligence by searching the forum for an answer, but to no avail. Excuse this most elementary of questions.

Using grep I can search a file and derive the line number of the text...