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Many thanks

Hello all,

I need to print all the lines before a specific string and print a custom message 2 lines after that.

So far I have managed to print everything up the string, inclusively, but I...

Out of curiosity, would this have worked as well?
awk -F'[ |]' '/^[0-9]/ {$49=$9; $50=$13; $51=$14} {print $0, $49, $50, $51}' input.txt

Thank you

Yes, this is what I was trying to do.

Can you please break down the logic for me?
Primarily the !len ||

This is very close. Based on one of the prior code I managed to put together, the final step would be taking this output and using it in the following manner.

Theoretically speaking.
awk '!len ||...

Hello all,

I need to find the longest string in a select field and print that field.

I have tried a few different methods and I always end up one step from where I need to be.

Methods thus...

Many thanks, I'll play with this a bit.

No, I am preparing for a technical portion of an interview where my knowledge of nawk scripting will be tested.

Good Morning/Afternoon All,

I am using the nawk utility in korn shell to find the longest field and display that result.

My Data is as follows:

The cat ran
The elephant ran
Milly ran too...

Thank you very much.
I spent the last couple of hours trying to do this with a for loop :(
Many many thanks once again.

Good Morning/Afternoon All,

I am having some trouble creating a variable called "total" to display the sum of the values in a specific field, $6 for example.

The data I am working on is in the...