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Epidemic · December 2nd, 2008, 04:11 PM

I don't care if it is specifically a grep.

Basically I need to know records which contain a 5 in the 39th field. i want to then pull the entire record for those records containing 5 in the field.

Awk
Grep... I dont really care what magic I just need to do this.

December 2nd, 2008, 04:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Epidemic MR Meek and Mild Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: almost Virginia Posts: 5,115 Blog Entries: 2	is there a way to Grep for a specific field in a ; separated file. I don't care if it is specifically a grep. Basically I need to know records which contain a 5 in the 39th field. i want to then pull the entire record for those records containing 5 in the field. Awk Grep... I dont really care what magic I just need to do this.