search from specified charactor space - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Smiling Dragon · #2 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008

So to clarify, you are wanting to only match lines that have (for example) 'kim' in the first or second field, but display the entire line where it's matched, right?

If so, you'll need a little bit of logic around the grep:

Code:

while read line ; do if echo $line | cut -d ' ' -f 1,2 | grep kim > /dev/null ; then echo $line ; fi ; done