Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I guess the common theme for command lines is to take what you want out of a file and put it into another file. I am wondering if there are ways of putting what you dont want into a file aswell.

so heres an example:

Code:

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so if i use this code, I get values above 7 and those below 2, and they go into file 1. But is there a way of putting those left out into a separate file? I know the alternative solution is to write a seperate code for those values left out (in this example it would be values between 2-7) but there must be a faster way.

Code:

awk ' $1<=2 || $1>=7' FILE1

thanks

Kyle

hey,
Maybe you can change the output file(s) dynamically.
for example:

Code:

awk '($1<=2 || $1>=7) ? outfile = "out1" : outfile = "out2" {print > outfile}' inputfile

Another way:

Code:

awk '$1<=2 || $1>=7{print $0 > "file1";next}' file > file2