UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Like the following shell command with embedded awk script?

Code:

awk '
  $2 != "=" { next }
  $1 == "(SERVICE_NAME" && $3 ~ s { print a }
  $1 !~ /^(/ { a=$1 }
' s="pri"

Hi,
thanks for the awk --- I do not understand how it should work and I get an error I can not correct:

Code:

awk: cmd. line:4: error: Unmatched ( or \(: /^(/

And I'd like to search for a service name that contains 'pri'. Can you please explain?



I played around with sed:

Code:

sed -n '/DESCR/{x;p;d;}; x'

returns all lefthand sides of the tnsnames.ora....if only I could add something to match the DESCRIPTION with a service name matching 'pri'