10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls

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October 24, 2008, 11:40

ok, now I see :-)

Let's see it this time it works:

"...like for example when we want everything that matches <tag>something</tag>. With GNU awk, we can do this:

gawk -v RS='</?tag>' 'RT=="</tag>"'

or again

gawk -v RS='</?tag>' '!(NR%2)'

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