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&gt; .. extract a particular variable ..<br />
could you please give an example what you want to extract<br />
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maybe this helps:<br />
&nbsp; grep &nbsp;&quot; mydir1&quot; myfile.dat
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> .. extract a particular variable ..
could you please give an example what you want to extract

maybe this helps:
  grep  " mydir1" myfile.dat

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<b> noci, thank you very much for your help!!!</b> <br />
I probably will use your example #2. Looks very different from the VAX DCL code.
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noci, thank you very much for your help!!!
I probably will use your example #2. Looks very different from the VAX DCL code.

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example1 &amp;&nbsp;2 stay relatevely close to the DCL original...<br />
example 3 is most unix like...<br />
And you're right bash shell doesn't look like DCL.
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example1 & 2 stay relatevely close to the DCL original...
example 3 is most unix like...
And you're right bash shell doesn't look like DCL.

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Thank you for your comments!!
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I am looking for an example of how to open .DAT in the Unix bash shell script and then extract a particular variable from that .DAT file into a different file. <br />
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<b>Please note</b>: this is how this function was done in VAX DCL code<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-27644555-1">open/read indat myfile.dat
 read_loop: 
  read/end_of_file=endit indat var1
  var2=f$extract(0,2,var1)
   if f$search(&quot;mydir1:file2.s''var2'&quot;) .nes. &quot; &quot; 
    then  
    del mydir1:file2.s'var2';* 
   endif
endit:
 close indat
 del myfile.dat;*</code></pre>
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Any examples or comments on how this might be done in the Unix bash shell script will be greatly appreciated!!
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I am looking for an example of how to open .DAT in the Unix bash shell script and then extract a particular variable from that .DAT file into a different file. 

Please note: this is how this function was done in VAX DCL code

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Any examples or comments on how this might be done in the Unix bash shell script will be greatly appreciated!!

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