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# 8  
Old 11-17-2010
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Originally Posted by scripter12
awk -F, '$6!="\"\"" ' infile
Hi,

A little explanation will be of great help

Thanks
If i understood correctly- In the input file the 6th column (with FS ,) of the shorter lines are- only double quotes " " whereas the longer lines has some values in 6th and the consecutive columns. So by not printing those lines whose 6th field is double-quoted we get the other longer lines.
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Old 11-17-2010
Code:
awk -F'","' '$6""' infile

Smilie

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Code:
grep \\. infile

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# 10  
Old 11-17-2010
Code:
perl -i -pe 'if ( length($_) != 137 ) { s/.*\s*//; }' file
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