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Thanks again vgersh99.. I was able to get this working. But encountered in an awk error on some files

awk: Input line 06/15/2009 05:08:18. cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes.

Alternately,...

Thanks vgersh99..it certainly helps.. don't have nawk in our server tried with awk and it works.. Have a few addl qs as I am not very familiar with awk..

I want to assign this...

I need to search and count the occurrences of a pattern in a file. The catch here is it's a pattern and not a word ( not necessarily delimited by spaces). For eg. if ABCD is the pattern I need to...

Thanks vgersh99 for all your help.

Tried this out and For me, catch with this is it does not yield be the table name ( string after the period).

When I run the script on my test file, my...

How do I get a regexp to match all these strings containing 'ABCD.' Basically I know the pattern I need to match ( in this case 'ABCD.'). I am new to this and little confused by how to enforce...

Thanks.. that helped. I was running from the same directory where the script was and didn't realize the need for '.'

I do.. Actually the file has 777 permissions. Is by any chance awk vs nawk making the difference ?

Thanks for that pointer. That was helpful and is very similar to what I want to accomplish. I asked another q in that thread.

I am trying to accomplish something similar. Will this work with awk too. We do not have nawk on our server.

When I run it from $ prompt, it seems to work with the 'foo' example. But when I ...

Thanks for your inputs. But I think my intent was wrongly conveyed by the example I gave. The pattern I am searching for can be anywhere in the log file.

Following might be a better ...

I need to grep for a pattern in a file. Files are huge and have several repeated occurances of the strings which match pattern. I just need the strings which contain the pattern in the output.

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