Re: [CentOS] More awk help

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:31:21PM +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

I need to have awk search for a string and print the first field which is no problem but now its returning two options as the input data has changed. The change is reliable, I only want the first field if it ends in a regex that I have, and I only want what that regex matches to be printed. Is it possible to do this in a one liner so I don't need to construct an awk script?

What you've written is mostly incoherent and incomprehensible.

Free clue: provide examples of input and expected output, including examples that will _not_ match (so no false positives occur).

I'm not sure if you simply want awk '$1 ~ /regexp/ { print $1}' or something more.