10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls

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June 10, 2011, 18:45

Very useful article and comments!

I have my own awk dilemma...

I'm trying to identify (and print) records from a file where the 15th & 16th bytes of a record = '02'. I've been searching for a solution but it appears most awk commands of this type reference a field $1, $2, etc.

Any ideas on how to write this? The file contains several layouts and for these specific records they are fixed length.

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