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From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Awk Split Question
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:38:24 -0400
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On 2012-09-15, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2012-09-15, Beery <mentorbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a file containing rows like
>>
>> MemTotal:     32959876 kB\nMemFree:        309820 kB\nBuffers:        563784 kB...
>
> LOL! See the "Simple Query" here: 
>
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:TXR

  What? Yet another unnecessary language?

> Note that that code will work even if the fields of /proc/meminfo are
> reordered, and interspersed with fields that you don't need.

  What does /proc/meminfo have to do with the question?


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