[ale] Question about awk

[Geoffrey]

Chuck Payne wrote:

> If I do .....
> 
> awk -F '[\\[\\]]' '/Recipient address rejected/ {print $10}' mail
> 
> You can tell that it looking, because you can see a whole bunch of
> blank lines go by.


Make sure you are identifying the right field.  Is it field 10 that you 
want?

[foo] [bar]

Field 1 is the null field before the first '['
Field 2 is 'foo'
Field 3 is the space between 'foo]' and ']bar'
Field 4 is 'bar'


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Until later, Geoffrey

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