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Re: Scanning out the "For your newsgroups file:" line

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From: Mark Brader
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:01
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> Last week I posted an inquiry for a piece of sed or other code that
> would give me the line FOLLOWING the "For your newsgroups file:" line...
> I figured that it would be a simple one liner or so ...

And so it is, if you use awk rather than sed.  In new awk:

	awk '/^For your newsgroups file:/ {getline; print; exit}'

In old awk, I believe it takes two lines:

	awk '/^For your newsgroups file:/ {hit = NR+1}
	     NR == hit {print; exit}'
-- 
Mark Brader, Toronto		sed -e "s;??\\([-=(/)'<!>]\\);?\\\\?\\1;g"
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com	will fix them...	-- Karl Heuer

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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Scanning out the "For your newsgroups file:" line
Message-ID: <1993Jan25.070159.16581@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:01:59 GMT
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