awk question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

I am using awk & smartctl in a small shell script to print out HDD temps 
in a purty format, 1 line per drive. As it happens, the output I want is 
spread out over 4 lines of smartctl out, requiring (I *think*) 4 calls 
to smartctl each piped to its own awk invocation to pull out the line I 
want & print its info out. Is there some way to get awk to consider more 
than 1 line at a time ? In my case my 4 lines are indeed sequential, & 
it would be a bit more efficient if I could process all 4 lines once I 
found the 1st one. This is definitely *not* critical, what I have now 
works AOK, I was/am just curious if it could be optimized a bit. TIA & 
have a good one.


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