[SOLVED] egrep move search results all to one line
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actually I used to suggest: do not use both grep and awk, because one of them should be sufficient to solve (such kind of issues).
In your case I would prefer awk, and I would try something like this:
actually I used to suggest: do not use both grep and awk, because one of them should be sufficient to solve (such kind of issues).
In your case I would prefer awk, and I would try something like this:
var is a variable, named var. var=$2 is an assignment, this will save the content of the second field in the variable named var (just remember the field separator).
/pattern/ will look for the line containing that pattern.
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