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# 8  
Old 03-18-2012
If your on Solaris you may need nawk instead of awk

Try this:

Code:
nawk '
  /larry/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n    "); print "    "$0}
  /sally/||/booby/' RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 infile

# 9  
Old 03-18-2012
Hello thankyou very much it really worked well, however it seemed to only indent the paragraph by a few spaces, is it possible to increase the spaces or indent - perhaps by 2 tabs?
Thankyou again
Regards
# 10  
Old 03-18-2012
Sure, here is two tab chars:

Code:
nawk '
  /larry/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n\t\t"); print "\t\t"$0}
  /sally/||/booby/' RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 infile

# 11  
Old 03-18-2012
Thankyou so much, that worked perfectly.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Much appreciated, regards
# 12  
Old 03-21-2012
Hello may I ask
I have been having trouble with user input that produces a variable to put into this NAWK command. Other words the user inputs data when prompted and that data is inserted into the NAWK.
I have been trying with the code with "$xxx" but no success, could you tell me where I am going wrong, thankyou

I have left out the rest of the script as that is running ok, it fails at this point and prints everything to the screen ignoring the variable that the user types in.
Code:
printf "enter search data "
read string

I rty the NAWK command
Code:
nawk '   /OUT/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n\t\t"); print "\t\t"$0}   /$string/' RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 infile

Could you tell me why the variable $string is being ignored , I have tried it with quotes "$string"
thankyou
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2012 at 04:56 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 13  
Old 03-21-2012
You could define a variable and use that in the program:

Code:
nawk  -v look="$string" ' /OUT/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n\t\t"); print "\t\t"$0} $0~look' RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 infile

Or end single quotes and put $string in double:

Code:
nawk ' /OUT/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n\t\t"); print "\t\t"$0}'"/$string/" RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 infile

# 14  
Old 03-21-2012
Thanks for replying Chubler
For some reason it still seems to ignore the $string variable and prints out the paragraphs with the defined OUT contained in it.
I tried both methods you gave me
Code:
printf "enter search string: "
 read string
 sed '/NZDT/{N;s/\n//;}' $filename >$newfilename
 sleep 3
 nawk  -v look="$string" ' /OUT/ { gsub(/\n/, "\n\t\t"); print "\t\t"$0} $0~look'
  RS= FS="\n" ORS="\n\n" IGNORECASE=1 $newfilename

Hopefully I have defined the variable correctly in the read statement which should then fill the NAWK but I get all the paragraphs that contain 'OUT'
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-22-2012 at 04:20 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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