help regarding AWK... 1

[nithink]

Hi,
i've a txt file called files.txt which has the following lines...

The file xyz1
The file xyz2
The file xyz3

The file xyz4
The file xyz5
The file xyz6

I'm using awk to get the 3rd field alone like this,

awk '{print "get " $3}' ./files.txt >> ./tmp5

the problem is sometimes there may be a blank line in the txt file.. so if its a blank line I dont want to use the awk statement... so i tried using this but still its not working...

awk '{if ($3 != " &quot print "get " $3}' ./files.txt >> ./tmp5

ur help really appreciated...thx...

 

[CaKiwi]

Try

awk '{if ($3 != "&quot print "get " $3}' ./files.txt >> ./tmp5

or

awk '{if (NF >= 3) print "get " $3}' ./files.txt >> ./tmp5 CaKiwi

 

[nithink]

Thanks much CaKiwi.. it worked..