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bigoldbulldog
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if you have quite a lot of records then put in the exit command so you quit scanning after the match.
e.g.
awk 'NR==2 {print length($0); exit}' file1
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e.g.
awk 'NR==2 {print length($0); exit}' file1
Cheers,
ND
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