Issue
I have multiple instances of the following pattern in my document:
Dipole Moment: [D]
X: 1.5279 Y: 0.1415 Z: 0.1694 Total: 1.5438
I want to extract the total dipole moment, so 1.5438. How can I pull this off?
When I throw in grep "Dipole Moment: [D]" filename
, I don't get the line after. I am new to these command line interfaces. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Solution
Could you please try following. Written and tested with shown samples in GNU awk
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awk '/Dipole Moment: \[D\]/{found=1;next} found{print $NF;found=""}' Input_file
Explanation: Adding detailed explanation for above.
awk ' ##Starting awk program from here.
/Dipole Moment: \[D\]/{ ##Checking if line contains Dipole Moment: \[D\] escaped [ and ] here.
found=1 ##Setting found to 1 here.
next ##next will skip all further statements from here.
}
found{ ##Checking condition if found is NOT NULL then do following.
print $NF ##Printing last field of current line here.
found="" ##Nullifying found here.
}
' Input_file ##Mentioning Input_file name here.
Answered By - RavinderSingh13