In linux this is the simplest exercise ever :)

grep or awk and tee will sort you out

Send a sample file to give u exact commands. You could even join files created by tee


Wilson./

On 13 June 2013 14:08, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:

2013/6/13 Simon Mburu <sgatonye@gmail.com>

A simple cat and grep, should do it.

Something in the lines of

cat file1 | egrep ^2008\(06\|07\|08\|09) > file2

 Without being picky.... isn't this some form of 'cat abuse'?

I think the cat command is superfluous; unless there's some not-so-obvious advantage it adds to that syntax.

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