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Old 03-26-2009
Grep based on specific columns.
Hi,

How can I grep a record for a value based on specific column.

If I simply do a grep 'AB' FilenName.txt, I might end up getting the records returned whose part of value is 'AB'.

But I want it specific to second column.

Code:
cut -d'|' -f 2 FileName.txt | grep 'AB'

But now it will return only the 2nd column. I need the whole row.

Kindly help me.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-27-2009 at 05:29 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 03-26-2009
then try this Smilie
Code:
grep "^[^|]*|AB" infile

or
Code:
awk -F"|" '$2 ~ /AB/{print}' infile

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