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How to i extract field using awk when the field is on a line which is the third line down from a known term which awk can use as the pattern
$ awk '/pattern/{getline;getline;getline;print $1}' ${filename}
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This command will search for the term 'pattern' in the file.txt, then extract the first field from the third line down from the matching pattern using awk.
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