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Old 07-25-2012
Grab 2 pieces of data within a file
I am a newbie and what I have is a captured file of content. I want to be able to grab 2 pieces of data, multiple times and print them to the screen.

DataFile
Code:
owner: locke
user: fun
data size: 60
location: Anaheim
owner: david
user: work
data size: 80
location: Orange

my script starts with
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat DataFile|grep owner |awk -F ':' '{print $2}'`
  echo $i
done

but I can't figure out how to pull the data size content.

I am looking for output like...
Code:
locke
60
david
80
etc.

Can someone help me to get started?
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-28-2012 at 03:26 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 07-25-2012
Try something like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
awk -F: '/^owner:/{printf "%s ",$2}/^data size:/{print $2}' datafile | while read owner size
do
   echo $owner
   echo $size
done

# 3  
Old 07-25-2012
Thanks, Chubler. That worked great.
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