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Old 07-17-2013
Extracting lines from a file with sed and awk
My source file is structured with two words on each line
Code:
word1   word2
word1   word2

I am using sed and awk to grab groups of specific lines
Code:
line=`awk 'NR>=4 && NR<=7' file1`; echo $line
line=` sed -n '1,5'p file1`; echo $line

The resulting output is

Code:
word1 word2 word1 word2 word1 word2

These are all on one line. I need the output to be in the same format as the source file.
Code:
word1 word2 
word1 word2

Last edited by Scott; 07-17-2013 at 04:00 PM.. Reason: Please start using code tags...
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Old 07-17-2013
Use double quotes to preserve whitespace:
Code:
echo "$line"

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