UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi using awk I know I can get all the lines with gold from a file called "gold.txt" like the one below:

gold 1 1986 USA American Eagle
gold 1 1908 Austria-Hungary Franz Josef 100 Korona
silver 10 1981 USA ingot
gold 1 1984 Switzerland ingot
bronze 1 1979 RSA Krugerrand
gold 0.5 1981 RSA Krugerrand
platinum 0.1 1986 PRC Panda
silver 1 1986 USA Liberty dollar
gold 0.25 1986 USA Liberty 5-dollar piece
silver 0.5 1986 USA Liberty 50-cent piece
silver 1 1987 USA Constitution dollar
gold 0.25 1987 USA Constitution 5-dollar piece
gold 1 1988 Canada Maple Leaf

with

awk '/gold/' coins.txt

however it is driving me crazy trying to figure out how to get the data from the next line after those with gold in it.

Many thanks,

Adam

Hm, very interesting, what are you intending?

maybe set a flag on finding gold.......


/$1~/gold/{gold=1}
/gold=1/{print; gold=0}

I have log files which has the single word 'Text' on the line prior to the actual text I need. I tried using

to get the line numbers with Text in it but that led to more problems as I tried to get the numbers and then grab those particular lines. I normally work with MATLAB and think my approach is all wrong. Been going round in circles all day.

I'm afraid I didn't quite get the setting of a flag, in no setup of the path can I get this to find the file gold.txt

Adam

Code:

awk '/gold/{getline;print}' filename

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

With sed:

Code:

sed -n '/gold/{n;p;}' filename

Still trying to figure out how it works but thanks.

Adam