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Old 01-27-2005
Search with awk, but having space within

If in my search string with awk, if I have spaces, I am getting an awk error.

e.g. awk /A B/ filename

How can I search the pattern which has space within?
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Old 01-27-2005
Just quote the expression

awk "/A B/" filename

or backslash escape the space

awk /A\ B/ filename

Cheers
ZB
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