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Old 03-12-2015
awk - how to print specific field if a string is matched
hi gurus,

I would like to be able to use awk to process 1 file as such:

Code:
abc 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
flags 1 2 4 
flags 1 2 5
abc 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
flags 1 2 3
abc 4 5 6 7 8 9 6 7 78 89 
flags 1 2 3 
flags 1 2 4
flags 1 2 3 4

I would like to be able to print field 1 and 5 when the line starts with abc and also print field 2 3 on the lines that start with flags
Any tips?

Thanks
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# 2  
Old 03-12-2015
Code:
awk '{if($0~/^abc/){print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}else if($0~/^flags/){print $2,$3}}' FileName.txt

# 3  
Old 03-12-2015
Perfect, thank you so much....
# 4  
Old 03-12-2015
Try also
Code:
awk   '/^abc/      {print $1,$5}
       /^flags/    {print $2,$3}
      ' file

# 5  
Old 03-12-2015
Thanks Rudi, that works great too Smilie
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