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From: lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding words in paragraphs
Message-ID: <8425@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 20:30:14 GMT
References: <8421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <10545@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <10545@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <8421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) writes:
>>Awk is what you want in this case.  Try something like this:
>>	awk 'BEGIN { FS = ""; RS = "\n"} /the-word-here/' the-filename-here
>
> [A nice demonstration that this doesn't work.]

Yes, I mistyped the line.  It should be { FS = "\n"; RS = "" }.  I _did_
say "something like this" :-).

But, hey, Doug, why didn't you just post a fix to this? [ :-) ]  It's a 
simple typo, and you took the time to test it and post a demonstration
that it didn't work.  Anyhows, switching the values of the field and
record separators will fix this "code" right up.  Bythe, the default
values for Awk are FS = " ", and RS = "\n".

Cheers,

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