On 12/20/22, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:04, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 22:02, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > $ echo -e '100:CD001\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } /CD001/ &&
>> > NR==1 { print $1 - 50 }'
>> > 50
>>
>> Oops, my mistake, that's not the solution. Give me another minute and I
>> will post a better one one.
>
> The below does a better job:
> (command should be all on one line)
>
> $ echo -e '100:CD001\nXXX\n200:CD001' | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" ; done=0 }
> /CD001/ && done==0 { print $1 - 50 ; done=1 }'
> 50
You can do it without flags:
$ echo -e '100:CD001\nXXX\n200:CD001' | awk -F: '/CD001/ { print $1 -
50 ; exit }'
50
