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# 8  
Old 01-09-2010
The only thing that is STRANGE, is that you said in your other post that it was strange, right after you fixed that too!

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# 9  
Old 01-09-2010
I didn't fix that problem then, I just did some trick.
And in this case, I couldn't do that trick.
You probably missed what I wrote - I wrote that this time the parameter comes from a file and not from the standard input so I can't use that solution here.
# 10  
Old 01-09-2010
Are you by any chance using functions in your script? The only way I can think of an explanation is maybe the positional parameters are changing if you call it through a function. If not then I agree.. it's odd.
# 11  
Old 01-10-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by shira
Hi,

I have a file:
file.txt

1 word
2 word
word
word
3 word
4 word

and I would like to create a set:
set number = `cut -d" " -f1 ${1}` #${1} is the text file

but it should only contain the lines which begin with numbers,
and another set which contains the lines which begin with words.

How can I do that?

Thanks,
Shira. Smilie
try this ,
Code:
gaurav@localhost:~/tem$ awk '/^[0-9]/{num[i++]=$0}!/^[0-9]/{no_num[j++]=$0}END{for(k=0;k<i;k++)print num[k];print "\n";for(k=0;k<j;k++)print no_num[k]}' file.txt 
1 word
2 word
3 word
4 word


word
word
gaurav@localhost:~/tem$
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