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Printing lines with same value of a certain field
Well, for the record, I'm new to awk so lpease be patient with me. :) I sorted lines, but when I want to get rid of the lines for which 3rd field is unique, by comparing to the previous line, I don't get that previous line printed. sort -k3,3 file.txt | awk 'BEGIN {prev=$3} ($3==prev) {print... -
Printing lines with same value of a certain field
Hello to everyone. I need a help with this one. I have a multicolumn file and I want to get a new file which contains only those lines that have the same value of a certain field (say 3rd) - all of them. For example, I want this: 1 2 3 p w 3 5 l q 9...
