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Old 01-04-2008
Data parse multiple lines? should be a easy answer...
inputfile:

A B C D
E F G H
1 2 3 4

-----------

I want to read these and put them into a variable:

file=../inputfile
col2line1=`cat $file | awk '{print $2}'`

how do i extract row 2's E,F,G,H or row 3's 1,2,3,4???

I tried the search, didn't get much, maybe i suck at searching too Smilie
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Old 01-04-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by DeuceLee
maybe i suck at searching too Smilie
always go here first
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Old 01-04-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
always go here first
it's kind of funny cus i actually spent about 30 mins on google before i came back on here...

but i think i got something that will improvise...i'll post something back if it works as expected or not...thanks
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Old 01-04-2008
it's kind of funny cus i actually spent about 30 mins on google before i came back on here...

but i think i got something that will improvise...i'll post something back if it works as expected or not...thanks
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Old 01-04-2008
Print the second line:
Code:
perl -ne 'print if 2..2' $file

Print lines 2 to 10:
Code:
perl -ne 'print if 2..10' $file

etc.
 
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