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szahri

03-21-2007 11:27 PM

Excluding a string in awk when printing

Hi all,
Lets say I have a file that have 4 columns and 400 rows in it, and I want to print out all the rows and columns except the one with the entry 'Suzana' in it..how do I do it?

I'm not sure how to exclude the rows containing Suzana and printing out the rest using awk..can I use substr for this?

Thanks!

ghostdog74

03-22-2007 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by szahri

Code:

awk '$0 !~ /Suzana/ { print }' file

why not just use grep

Code:

grep -v "Suzana" file

Tinkster

03-22-2007 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

Code:

awk '$0 !~ /Suzana/ { print }' file

Too verbose :}

Code:

awk '!/Suzanna/' file

Cheers,
Tink

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