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Thanks Kevin,
I will give that a shot.

Hi,
I am having trouble comparing two files of different lengths and extracting a needed value. File 2 has two columns of information that match up with a value from File 1. I use this as search...

There are multiple input files and multiple user input variables. Im just trying to automate something that was already written. I will try your suggestions.
Thanks for your help

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Scott, thanks for your help
I still have the same problem, I am a new user is it possible not to have bash and only sh? Let me post my entire code to see if it helps.
./window_sect_inf_make
echo...

I am not sure how to tell what line the error is on? I use
source shellscriptname to run
Badly placed ()'s.
I forgot last EOF but nothing changed

Ok my first attempt at suggestion with more info. I get an error: badly placed ()s
any ideas?

for ((i=1; i<=365; i++)); do
./window_sect_data_make <<EOF
echo $i #!the record number
Vn #!...

Hi
I would like foreach to go through a range of numbers 1-365. This input is being read by a compiled fortran program in the same shell script. Let me try an example to clarify



#!/bin/sh...

Hi,
I am having trouble with awk. I need to read in the first line and only keep it if the next x number of lines doesnt contain 9999 in it.

This example is a file I want to get rid of....

Ok,
Thanks for the heads up and the help!

That seems to work! Sorry about all the confusion. Did I use BB codes correctly? I am mostly a windows user and never used them before.
Thanks

Ok Ive tried to add some BB Codes, they are all new to me, I thought the bold strings could be used for searching in awk. I need the output to be identical to the input. I just only want data from...

This is the format of the file. The output can be the same. I just need to extract the entire line with "start", and a value in the fourth column, and all of the following info until the next...

This might be a dumb question but I dont think I have the nawk command. Can this be run using just awk.
I am new to our system and it says nawk command not found

Opps, I forgot to mention the first field for this line needs to say "start" as well can this be added in to that search pattern?
Let me try and clarify...
I am looking for these two things in the...

Hi,
I just started using linux, and I am trying to use awk to search for a string in a document. If it exists I would like to print the next 33 lines(there will be mulitple matches in these files)....