Shell Programming and Scripting

 
FILE_DATE =`cat report.txt | awk '/TIME:/ {gsub(",","",$3); print $3}'`
echo "FILE DATE is: $FILE_DATE"

awk '/TIME/{d=$4}/--/{getline;print d "\n" $0}' inputfile

awk '
/TIME:/ {print $4}
/^[1-9][0-9]*$/ {print $1}
' report.txt

FILE_DATE=` awk '/TIME:/ {print $4}' report.txt
NO_OF_CHARS=`awk '/characters/ {getline; getline; print}' report.txt`

FILE_DATE=`sed '/TIME:/ s/[^0-9]*\([0-9]\{2\}\/[0-9]\{2\}\/[0-9]\{4\}\).*/\1/; q' report.txt`
NO_OF_CHARS=`sed -n '/characters/{n;n;p}' report.txt`

 
FILE_DATE=`awk '/TIME:/ {print $7}' report.txt`
echo "FILE DATE is: $FILE_DATE"
NO_OF_CHARS=`awk '/--/ {getline;print d $1}' report.txt`
echo "NO OF CHARS: $NO_OF_CHARS"

rep=$(cat report.txt)
rep=${rep#*: }
fdate=${rep%% *}
count=${var2##*
}
echo "File date is $fdate , count is $count"