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Hi, I'm trying to find the position of a series of numbers within a large text file. The numbers are separated by spaces.

This works fine:

Code:

type Huge_File.txt | gawk "{print index($0,"255")}"

But this does not:

Code:

type Huge_File.txt | gawk "{print index($0,"188 028 239 160 016 190 137 063")}"

I get this error:

Code:

gawk: cmd. line:2:                    ^ unexpected newline
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.

I'm looking for very specific numbers, so no regex needed. What's the proper incantation for a series of numbers?

Gawk is being called by another script, which is why I'm looking for a 1-liner.

I'm using GNU utilities for Win32, and I'm on Vista. The double-quotes are correct for Windows. Also, I have no particular preference for Awk and can use any other Unix util like Grep, Sed, Tr or whatever.

Thanks,
Lemming.

Have you tried:

Code:

type Huge_File.txt | gawk '{print index($0,"188 028 239 160 016 190 137 063")}'

Yeah, that's the first thing I tried. All I get is this:

Code:

gawk: cmd. line:1: '{print
gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char ''' in expression

Seems to be a Win32 thing; you need to use double-quotes for this version.

Code:

c:\>type Huge_File.txt | gawk "{print index($0,\"188 028 239 160 016 190 137 063\")}"

Hi kurumi, that works great.

Thanks!