From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-03-06T03:18:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby translation for UNIX scripting command

 --- Thomas Luedeke <tluedeke@excite.com> wrote: 

> pattern "test", and printing the fourth field, I'd do a grep plus awk
> command such as:grep "test" file_name | awk ' { print $4 } ' &gt;&gt;
> output_fileHowever, in my Ruby books, I don't see any discussion about

You win the UuoGA (Useless Use of Grep Award). Why not let awk to the
pattern matching?

awk '/test/ {print $4}' < file_name >> ./some_other_file

-- Thomas Adam

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