Shell Programming and Scripting

grep  -w 'ALPHANUMERIC     *16'  filename

SAMP_RICS  "SAMPLE RICS"        5694  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       60  RMTES_STRING    60
PROB_DESC  "PROBLEM DESC"       5695  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       32  RMTES_STRING    32
PAIR_CLIP1 "PAIR CLIP1"         5702  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC        9  RMTES_STRING     9
RELDATA1   "RELATED DATA1"      5756  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       16  RMTES_STRING    16
RELNEWS    "RELATED NEWS"       5757  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       16  RMTES_STRING    16
RELDATA2   "RELATED DATA2"      5758  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       21  RMTES_STRING    21

#!/bin/bash

c=28
while [ $c -ge 28 ]  ; [ $c -le 255 ]
do
        grep -w 'ALPHANUMERIC     $c' RDMFieldDictionary
        (( c++ ))
done

awk '$7>=28' file

awk '{
for(N=1; N<=NF; N++)
{
       if($N == "ALPHANUMERIC")
       {
               N++;
               if(($N >= 28) && ($N  <= 255)) print;
       }
}' < infile

 perl -nle 'print if(/ALPHANUMERIC\s+(2[89]|[3-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])/)' infile

awk '$(NF-2)>27' infile

awk '/ALPHANUMERIC/&&$(NF-2)>27&&$(NF-2)<256' infile

# awk '/ALPHANUMERIC/&&$(NF-2)>27&&$(NF-2)<256' tst
SAMP_RICS  "SAMPLE RICS"        5694  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       60  RMTES_STRING    60
PROB_DESC  "PROBLEM DESC"       5695  NULL        ALPHANUMERIC       32  RMTES_STRING    32