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The idea is to process every string in the file as though the file were an array, without processing lines.

Radnaskela Samot
– Radnaskela Samot

2012-11-16 13:06:57 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 13:06
@AleksandarHadjikan Okay, edited.

Chris Down
– Chris Down

2012-11-16 13:28:42 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 13:28
This is very good. Is there a way to send an index to awk to specify which word to print out?

Radnaskela Samot
– Radnaskela Samot

2012-11-16 13:57:03 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 13:57
@AleksandarHadjikan Added it to my answer.

Chris Down
– Chris Down

2012-11-16 14:11:25 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 14:11
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@AleksandarHadjikan It really sounds like you are going about this the complete wrong way. It would be much better not to do that.

Chris Down
– Chris Down

2012-11-16 16:22:08 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 16:22

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