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Old 05-14-2010
Bug Identifying a string from a set of files and printing to a new file
Dear All,
I'm an amateur to writing scripts and need to do the following

Need to read all files with a .log extension in a directory and identify the value for username i.e. all files have something like username = John. Once this is read, I need to print this value to a new file. The new file should have the information of the username and the file name that the value was read from.
Any help would be appreciated.

Kelly
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Old 05-14-2010
Code:
nawk -F= '$1=="username" {print FILENAME, $0}' *.log

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Old 05-14-2010
Dear vgersh99,
Truly appreciate your super fast response.
I will give this a try and let you know if I run into any issues.

Regards
Kelly
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