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Old 08-07-2013
Matching and printing line with awk

Hi there,

I'm trying to use awk to print out the entire line that contains a match to a certain regex and then append some text,plus the match to the end of the line.

So far I have:
Code:
awk -F: '{print "RG:Z:" $2}' file

Which prints out the match I want plus the additional text, but I'm stuck on how to also print out the entire line as well as that. I'm not an expert with awk unfortunately, I could do it in perl easily enough but I think awk may be faster, which is useful given the files I'm working with are 4-500GB.

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-08-2013 at 03:22 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 08-07-2013
Code:
awk -F: '/regex/{print $0" RG:Z:"$2}' file

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Old 08-07-2013
Simple as that eh! Work's great, thank you!
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Old 08-07-2013
Anytime.
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