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Old July 20th, 2006, 03:34 AM
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Post Using awk to take lines from a 15Mb file and place in a new file
Hey guys,

I have a 15Mb text file, has around 170,000 lines in it.

I want to be able to search the file for a specific word e.g. Kura and have every line that has the word Kura in inserted into a new file.

Can anyone help me?

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something like
Code:
grep Kura file > newfile
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Old July 20th, 2006, 03:48 AM
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Ok now I feel liek a total nub.

Thankyou for that, didn't realise it was so easy.
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If you want to match the word 'Kura' and not 'Kuramanga' etc. you should use something like:

Code:
grep '\<Kura\>' file > newfile
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