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Old 09-29-2012
assigning variable in txt file
Hi all,

One of my txt file has common format like [1]. And I need to manually assign variable to "/a/b/c/file1/txt" , which has common text before "Calculated summary file:".

I wonder if I can use some command to do that for me, that it read the file and check for that comonn text and assign VARIABLE to "/a/b/c/file1/txt"

[1]
Code:
version: version 2.1
Working directory:  /a/b/c
Data: /source/path/
Total files: 212
Calculated summary file: /a/b/c/file1/txt
log file: /a/b/log.txt

Thanks in advance,
emily
# 2  
Old 09-29-2012
Code:
VARIABLE=$(awk ' /Calculated summary file/ {print $(NF) }'  inputfile)

Start with that, which assumes the search pattern occurs only once in a file.
# 3  
Old 09-29-2012
Thanks Jim..:-)
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