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Hi,
I have a file that contains some records that I would like to process
each line that I am interested in. My goal is to create a new file that contains only the rest_of_line for each line that matches.

It has the following File Format
command, platform, rest_of_line"
I am searching the command column of the file with the command:
grep COPYCMD file1 >> file2
while read -r fl_cmd fl_platform fl_rest_of_line
do
echo $fl_rest_of_line >> file3
done < file2

The following sample input from file2 gets expanded in file3
COPYCMD MY cp myfile* $CHGDIR/bin

I have file myfile1 and myfile2 and the file3 ends up with
cp myfile1 myfile2 $CHGDIR/bin

I don't understand why it is expanding when I am simply echoing it. Any help that anyone can provide, including a better way of doing this is appreciated.

Does the following simplified example give you an idea of how to proceed?

Code:

> cat file3
joe 12 * beetle
brian 99 . cow
joe 15 ? house
> awk '$1=="joe" {print}' file3
joe 12 * beetle
joe 15 ? house
> awk '$1=="joe" {print}' file3 | sed "s/joe //"
12 * beetle
15 ? house
>

This helps, but I need to evaluate the value of column 2 and if it matches "YES" then write it to file3. If it is "NO" then I write it to file4, etc. Can you tell me how to do that?