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That works exactly like I want....fantastic! Thanks:)

I get the message "tail:: Too many arguments.". Should I be replacing text in your example with text relevant to my example? I'm not familiar with a lot of the syntax.

Hi,
I have a directory full of *.txt files. I would like to print the last line of every file to screen.
I know you can use FNR for printing the first line of each file, but how do I access the...

I'm a newbie aswell;)

Thanks for the reply but I actually solved the problem while messing around with it:o.

I wrote the following function:
function save_file()
{
printf...

Hi,
I'd like to process multiple files. For example:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

Each file contains several lines of data. I want to extract a piece of data and output it to a new file....

Ok, I figured it out. The following code works perfectly:

#!/usr/bin/awk
BEGIN {
print "Starting script...";
}
{
if ( FNR==1 && NR==1 )#
{
printf FILENAME"\t\t"
}
if (...

It's going to take me a while to understand your code before I can fine tune it (I'm a beginner). It's close to being correct, but has a few problems.
- When the script finds the flag "UWI", it...

That looks much better, the data now looks more like this:

Filename1.txt Data1 MoreData1
Filename2.txt Data2 MoreData2
Filename3.txt Data3 MoreData3

However, there's still a problem. I'm...

I can't be specific with the data, but this should give you an idea:

line 1 blah blah
line 2 blah blah
line 3 blah blah
line 4 blah blah
line 5 blah blah
line 6 blah blah
UWI . ...

Hi,
I'm using AWK to try to extract data from multiple files (*.txt). The script should look for a flag that occurs at a specific position in each file and it should return the data to the right of...