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apologies if i'm being a nuisance, but i'm a beginner and not really following.

do you mean find the files and pipe it to awk?
ie. this?

fine -name "*" | awk '{if ((lastword=="Bill") &&...

beautiful, thankyou.

two quick further questions, if you don't mind :)

1 - how do i run awk recursively on a directory? i have 100s of files in a directory which i need to run this on.
2 - i...

Hi

I have a problem where I have a large amount of files that I need to scan and return a line and its following line, but only when the following line begins with a string.

String one -...

brilliant. thankyou so much!

Hi

I have a file like this:

Peter North
Mary
Peter North
Peter Borough
Mary

I need there to put 'X' (or anything) on a new line between the two lines where 'Peter' begins the line. There...

thanks guys! apologies again, but i'm new to this.

steve.

Hi guys. Very new to this so apologies if this is ridiculously obvious, but I am not sure why this isn't working. I want to pull a file off an FTP server. I currently do it through windows, which is...