Re: File Manipulation in Linux

In news:eph5v131g79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Joe Cipale <joec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would have offered to use a combo of 'awk' and 'grep'. One script
and multiple output files

Why use grep? awk has excellent pattern-matching capabilities:

awk '/name_/ {print $3}' file1 > file2
.

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