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Old 07-23-2008
how to grep from specific field
the file has several date fields.for example, #2, #3,and #5 are date fields.
I want grep year '2002' just within #2 field and get all the rows which content year '2002' in the #2 field. is it possible to do this? how to do it? Thanks
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Old 07-23-2008
Welcome to the forums ! Smilie

You could have searched the forums for 'n' number of answers.

Code:
awk '$2 ~ 2002' filename

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Old 07-23-2008
MySQL Thank you muck
Thanks a lot for the prompt reply, i'll try the command
 
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