Timeline for Output specific field values only if the specific values of an entire random line are equal to some variable
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| Nov 16, 2019 at 0:51 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 11, 2019 at 14:06 | comment | added | Ed Morton | When you say print a random line from the file - do you literally mean the output has to be random or are you OK with getting the first line that matches output? | |
| Nov 11, 2019 at 14:03 | answer | added | Ed Morton | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 11, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | Ed Morton | edit your question to include concise, testable sample input and expected output so we can best help you. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | steeldriver | "$yearpref1" will be a literal string here (use -v to pass shell variables, or make use of the ENVIRON array), and -eq is not an awk operator, so it will be treated as arithmetic expression - 0 | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 22:38 | history | edited | steeldriver | CC BY-SA 4.0 | improved formatting |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 21:58 | comment | added | Bagalaw | This would be a lot easier, readable and less error-prone if you did it in Python. Are you interested in that solution or awk only? I think you can first grep for lines that match the preference, then do the random sample. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 21:50 | history | edited | Jeff Schaller♦ | edited tags | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 21:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 10, 2019 at 21:10 | history | asked | user381358 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |