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My file looks like this 

#Default GitHub
Host github.com
  #Username username2
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_username2

Host github-username1
  #Username username1
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_username1

I'd like to find the first username after github.com so it would return in this case, username2.

Daniel Kobe
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To grab first Username after Host github.com:

$ awk '/Host github.com/ {f=1; next} f==1&& /Username/ {f=0; print $2}' file
username2
James Brown
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    @DanielKobe It prints the output you requested, no other extraneous lines. – Ed Morton Nov 19 '16 at 00:35
  • how do I pipe the output to a file, when I do `awk 'the command here' file > newfile.txt` it adds nothing to the newfile` – Daniel Kobe Nov 19 '16 at 01:00
  • @DanielKobe You don't pipe anything to a file, you redirect. If you want to _add_ to a file as in append you use `>>`. Other than that, you need to restate your question. – James Brown Nov 19 '16 at 01:09
  • @JamesBrown yes sorry, I meant the redirection doesn't work, it doesn't create a new file – Daniel Kobe Nov 19 '16 at 01:10
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awk 'f&&/Username/{print $2; exit} /github\.com/{f=1}' file
Ed Morton
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