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(cont) Retrieve line from a file based on a value in specific column
HI,
Your help was great: awk -F":" '$5 ~ /^P/{print }' file I would like to know what changes need to be done to this line code, so that I can put it in a shell script and call it as the example below. example: countries that start with chacater 'P' > country P Result: 2006:John:Student:Football:Portugal:Cinema 2006:James:Engineer:Basket:Poland:Theatre Thanks Elio |
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