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mrpringle

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 74

awk command

Hi,
Unfortunately I really don't have the time to learn awk.

I need a command which scans a file and prints a subset of the line when a match is found.

Here are the specifics.

When a line containing the following is found. I need to print /some/path. I only want to consider the first match and any other lines not matching should be ignored.
DocumentRoot "/some/path"

How can this be done?

Thanks

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,796

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Re: awk command

awk -F '"' '/^DocumentRoot/ {print $2}' /path/to/file.txt | head -n1

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//github/

mrpringle

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 74

Re: awk command

Thank you very much for that.