Hi SITE MCC MNC LAC CI ELEMENT VALUE --- 11 502 12 4021 (0FB5h) 14336 (3800h) 0 11 502 12 4021 (0FB5h) 14337 (3801h) 0 11 502 12 4021 (0FB5h) 14338 (3802h) 0 How to grep the 0 value from the file. This 0 value is actually the last column after the Element Value header. I used grep "ELEMENT VALUE" abc.log but how do i go to the next row. Thanks Nimi

[code] awk ' NR>1{ print $NF } ' "file" [/code]

Thanks, that didnt really work. How to awk/script this:- Extract column 8 from row = 48 of file.txt and store in variable. 11 502 12 4021 (0FB5h) 14336 (3800h) 0 Nimi

and space delimited Nimi

why it did not work? show what you have done. to get row 48, use NR==48. To get column 8 , use $8. If you are sure that the "0" is always at last field, then you can use $NF.

To get the result I did this:- grep -n "ELEMENT VALUE" file.txt > out.txt EXT_LINE=`awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $1;}' file.txt` NEW_LINE=`expr $EXT_LINE + 2` awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} NR==48 { print $8 }' "input.log"