While I don't know the answer (I stopped using awk years ago), I may
understand the question a bit better. As I read the original poster's
messages, he wants to do the following:
1. Find one or more lines in a file (or set of files) that contains a
specific string. This, as we've all been noting, is a conventional problem
for grep.
2. Examine the output of grep to find a string that is in an *unpredictable*
location in each of the lines.
awk can probably do the second, and I'm sure someone on the list can explain
how (not me; I use perl for this sort of thing), but Richard's answer relies
on the target string being in a known position. To extend his examp,e it's
as though you needed to find the word following SSC/ESCC in the following 2
lines:
The SCC/ESCC driver can support any mix of SCC and ESCC chips
The revised SCC/ESCC driver is also able to support any mix of SCC and ESCC
chips
Or imagine a set of lines all about the same topoc, each with a number in an
unknown location. How would one find all the numbers?
One or the other of these is, I think, roughly what the poster wants to
achieve.
At 09:52 PM 4/22/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
>According to omer ansari: While burning my CPU.
>>
>> awk might suit ur needs.
>
>It certanly might, however we still dont realy know what the origanal poster
>wants to do, he talks about "regexp" but would not "grep -e" expression" do
>the same, or there abouts.??
>
>Something like the following.
>An example, the following line in a file;
>The SCC/ESCC driver can support any mix of SCC and ESCC chips
>
>Now suppose we only want to get the word after SCC/ESCC, we would use;
>
>grep -e "SCC/ESCC" filename | awk '{print $3}'
>
>That will produce the word "driver" for each and every match because its the
>3rd word in the line matched by grep -e, -e = expression enclosed in " ".
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