[ale] HELP Scripting gurus

[Danny Cox]

Tomas,

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 09:27, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> need to find out lines in a text file where chars 57-58 = "12"
> awk or sed is capable of doing this ?

	Awk can do it.  Sed would be a bit more of a problem, but could do it. 
Something like:

		sed '^........12' file
		       ^^^ is 56 periods

	Instead, try:

		awk 'substr ($0, 57, 2) == "12"' file

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Danny


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