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    What did you try with awk? How did it fail? If you only want the INACTIVE lines, why are you showing ACTIVE in your output? Are you just looking for grep INACTIVE file? Please edit your question and clarify. And also mention your operating system. Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 12:29