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I had to change the " to a ' to get it to run (was that a mistake on my part?), but I now get:

awk '$4 ~ /start/ {in++;next} $4 ~ /bad_trial/ {in=0;next} in{print $1 FS $NF}'...

thanks for that suggestion!

When I try that, I get errors:


awk "BEGIN {inside=0} $3 ~ /start/ {inside=1} $3 ~ /bad_trial/ {inside=0} {if (inside==1) {print $1 FS $4}" lamar-Training_5seq.log...

Excellent, thank you for that explanation.

If I were to want to include something like that in my script (because I want to do several additional other things as I work through the file), how...

Thanks much for your help.

Can you unpack this part for me and explain what it is doing?

{l ? l=l RS $0 : l=$0}

my brain hurts trying to figure out what it does, and why it does it.

Hmmm.. not sure what is best for my purposes. I think I just need to append.

Basically, I want to go through a log file looking for certain items in specific fields. In column 4, I'm looking for...

I have some awk code that, at one point, does this:

{
if ($4 == "good_trial") {
goodTrialCount++ # increment the goodTrial counter
stuffImKeeping=$0
}

I'm assuming that


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Nowhere does this say WHY this should be done. This isn't obvious to dummies, who are presumably the ones you are trying to reach with this.

I want to build an array using awk, consisting only of a subset of lines of a file. I know how to have awk assess whether a key phrase is in a particular line, but I can't find anywhere how to then...

I have a log file that has certain fields that I want to evaluate, and depending on the value in those fields, I want to put the value of a different field in that line in a particular variable that...