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Old 12-13-2010
awk...print first line...
hello all, I am trying to use the AWK cmd on unix and trying to figre out how i can only print the first line and now rest of the line...so for example...
Code:
$ lsnrctl version|grep Version| awk '{print $5}'| awk -F. '{print $1}'|uniq
11
NT
Adapter
for

but i only want 11 to print out there without grepping for 11....is there any awk cmd that will only print first line and ignore rest of the lines ??
Last edited by Scott; 12-13-2010 at 04:55 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 12-13-2010
Code:
$ lsnrctl version|grep Version| awk '{print $5}'| awk -F. '{print $1}'|uniq |head -1

That ok?
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Old 12-13-2010
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
$ lsnrctl version|grep Version| awk '{print $5}'| awk -F. '{print $1}'|uniq |head -1

That ok?
Thank you...
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Old 12-13-2010
Code:
lsnrctl version | awk '/Version/{split($5,a,".");u[a[1]};END{for(i in u) {print i;exit}'

 
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