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nawk -v p='Text Bon Jour' '/^Example/{e=$0;next} $0~p{print e}' myFile

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Originally Posted by vgersh99

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nawk -v p='Text Bon Jour' '/^Example/{e=$0;next} $0~p{print e}' myFile

can this be modified so that if the p value is not found, then it will just echo out the p value.

For example, query for "Wow" will echo out wow since it's not in the input file. A querey for "Text Bon Jour" will echo "Example Hello"

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