Howdy.

I know this is most likely possible using sed or awk or grep, most likely a combination of them together, but how would one go about running a grep like command on a file where you only try to match your pattern to the second field in a line, space delimited?

Example:

You are searching for xxx in each line of a file where the file is laid out as
aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
Each one of those three letter groupings being any number of things. I only want to display the lines of the files where bbb = xxx.

Possible?

Thanks if anyone knows.