Grep / Awk

[The Magnet]

Hi,

I have this line of data: Action = ADD

And I am trying to use this command: action=`cat file.dat | grep
'Action' | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d "=" -f 2`

Most of our files do not have spaces around the equal sign, so this
works. But a few files have the spaces around the equal sign, which
is messing everything up.

Any help on how to get around this?

Many Thanks!

[Barry Margolin]

In article
<2c65020b-af06-4fb8...@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
The Magnet <a...@unsu.com> wrote:

action=`awk -F' *= *' '/Action/ {print $2}'`

As you can see, awk contains the capabilities of both grep and cut.

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[The Magnet]

On Aug 27, 12:33 am, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article
> <2c65020b-af06-4fb8-981c-5b05f28a4...@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,

Thanks!