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Re: Word-boundary mawk Debian Stretch



On 10/14/2018 10:13 AM, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With gawk I'm able to do the following:
> 
> $ gawk -v pattern=try '$0 ~ "\\<"pattern"\\>"{getline;print $2}'
> ~/.ssh/config
> ~/.ssh/try/id_rsa
>

I forgot in the above command 'exit' at the end of the gawk command.
So the command in question is:

$ gawk -v pattern=try '$0 ~ "\\<"pattern"\\>"{getline;print $2;exit}'

-- 
John Doe


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