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From: ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news newgroup - awk failure
Message-ID: <10886@quest.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 90 20:34:00 GMT
References: <10885@quest.UUCP>
Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN
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  Correction, I'm still using awk:
	pat="$1"
	type=`awk "\\$1 == \"$pat\" { print \\$4; exit }" $NEWSCTL/active`
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