You can't look for 200 using grep after you throw away that text.

With your sample input:

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157.55.39.183 - - [08/Jun/2015:20:48:02 -0400] "GET /content/696-news041305 HTTP/1.1" 200 14574 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"

the fields recognized by cut with the field delimiter set to the <space> character are:So, the command:

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 cat access_abc.log | cut -d' ' -f7

and, the much more efficient, equivalent command:

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cut -d' ' -f7 access_abc.log

will print:

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/content/696-news041305

and, since that does not contain the string 200, there will be no output from the command:

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cut -d' ' -f7 access_abc.log | grep "200"

I have no idea what you mean by the 200 HTTP code and you didn't give us the output you're trying to get. If you would give us sample log file lines matching the criteria you're trying to meet and lines that do not match your criteria (in CODE tags), show us the output you're trying to get from that input (in CODE tags), and clearly explain in English which input lines are to be selected and what output is to be produced from the selected lines, we can probably help you find an easy solution to your problem.