Hello all I'm trying to understand Pemente's awk/sed example #2 in using awk/sed to find a line in a text file and sending the content of that line into a variable. A search didn't really help me much... http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/bat_env.htm#sed " Example 2: Get John Doe's phone number from FOO.DAT, and put it into the variable %PHONE% @echo off :: Look for name John Doe, get field #4 awk "/John Doe/ {print \"set phone=\" $4}" FOO.DAT >tmp_.bat call tmp_.bat echo John Doe's phone number is /%PHONE%/ :: del tmp_.bat >NUL set phone= " e.g. Look for "Backup Path=[content]" in a text file, set %backup% to [content] using sed/awk. I don't understand the "get field 4" part of Pemente's example: do we have to know the exact field/line number in the text file beforehand? I'm using the win32 GNU port for SED, 3.02 (haven't gotten awk yet). Thanks ahead of time.

Are you using windows and a port of awk/sed? If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

>> I'm using the win32 GNU port for SED, 3.02 (haven't gotten awk yet). If you don't have awk then that's a very good reason why the awk command isn't working!!

No, I mean I haven't tried to write a batch for this yet because I don't understand what that particular line means. :P I'd like to figure out what the commands are before writing the actual batch. Ah, nevermind...