awk script question

Kurt Wall kwall
Wed Sep 8 15:14:07 PDT 2004


In a 1.9K blaze of typing glory, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> 
> ooo  Thanks Kurt!
> 
> BTW, is there a way to get awk to conditionally grab a field from the next
> line?  As an example, each of the lines I am outputing these fields from
> contains the word Unit.  I would like to grab one of the field from the
> line immediatly follwing the line used for the fields here.  Any
> suggestions?

I'm not sure about fields, but `getline' will grab the next input record,
so it should be easy enough to peel off the field that you want.

Kurt
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