Shell Programming and Scripting

abc    0       1     Pass
hjk     1       1     Pass
bhk    0        0     Fail
jjh     8          2    Pass
nkji    0         1     Pass

$ myvar=$(awk '$1=="jjh"{print $3}' file)

$ echo $myvar
2

awk '
{
 if($1 == "jjh")
 {
 a[X]=$3
        for(i in a)
 print a[i]
 }
} ' check_1st_coloumn

2

$ Col1="jjh"
$ awk -v field1="$Col1" '$1 == field1 { print $3 }' test2

$ perl -lane'/jjh/ && print "$F[2]"' file

$ vars=$(perl -lane'/jjh/ && print "$F[2]"' file)
$ echo $vars
2

$ search="jjh"
$ perl -lane'/'$search'/ && print "$F[2]"' file
2

perl -lane 'print "$F[2]" if $F[0] =~ /jjh/ ' file