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Hello,

I'm trying to use awk to print lines that match a regular expression.

I am using awk to print a record only if it contains N/A.

awk '/N/A/ {print $1}'

When executed the script returns "awk syntax error near line 1".

If I use /N//A/ it prints all records containing a "/", not just N/A

How can print the records with just the expresion N/A?


thanks

escape the extra slash

Code:

awk '/N\/A/ {print $1}' file

Thanks...it worked great