.@chris I’ve parsed a lot of things like this with awk / nawk / gawk.

Put multiple lines in an awk script (.awk) that match patterns and set variables.

Then after you e matched the last line, do what you want with the variables. E.g.

($1 == “Running”){
runningMode=$4
state=$7}

($1 == “Power”){
powerManagementMode=$5
print state, powerManagementMode, runningMode

runningMode=“”
state=“”
powerManagementMode=“”
}

The idea is match lines that should have known value(s) in specific field(s) and use set variables to the proper values on the matched line.

Once you see the last line (in a set) then use the variables and set the variables to default / control values.

I’ve had great success with this as a #sysadmin

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```
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```

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