[Novalug] Your REGEX query

Peter Larsen plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com
Sun Jan 9 00:40:20 EST 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 02:20 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Peter,
> I deleted your message before replying.  So I'll
> send this on directly.

Sure.

> awk has a special construct for multi-line records
> separated by blank lines.  You set the Record Separator
> to null.  Here is an example that works with your data:
> 
> awk '
>   BEGIN { RS = "" }
> 
>   $NF == "dest1@someaddr.com" {
> 	print $1
>   }
> ' data

I've never been too much of an awk fan, but that actually seems to work
and it isn't too large of a piece of code. 

Thanks!

-- 
Best Regards
  Peter Larsen

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		-- Groucho Marx
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