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Name: vijaynag
Date: May 28, 2008 at 06:08:58 Pacific
Subject: search for word/s in a file
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: intel xeon
Model/Manufacturer: intel

Comment:

hi,
i need a shell script to find the position of one or more words in one line of a file and then get a number/s which is/are located in the same position/s in the next line. I need to do this for many lines till the end of the file. then all these searched number/s along with the word/s should be sent to another file. please help me with this

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Response Number 1

Name: ghostdog
Date: May 30, 2008 at 22:13:13 Pacific

Reply: (edit)


awk '{
 if ( match($0,"word") ) {
    getline 
    print $3
    next
 }
}
' file

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