-F, ensures that a comma is used as field separator and it should work for every line in your input file and it should print $2 for every line where the condition $1 ~/xyz/ && $2 ~/abc/ is met..
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If you file has a multiline $2 then additional processing needs to be done. I depends on what kind of CSV format you use..
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A line or a field shall only be comma (,) separated. White spaces, new lines shall not be considered as delimiters
The newline is never considered a field separator by default, but rather a record separator, or in other way, how much from the file is going to read before subdividing even into smaller parts, called fields.
Your sample input and your sample output are non consistent. Field 2 in your comma separated input file contains two <newline> characters (which you say are not field delimiters and are part of the field), but there are no <newline> in the middle of the single line sample output that you say you are trying to get???
Furthermore, most CSV files contain more than one record and contain a fixed number of fields. But, apparently we are to assume that your input file is always exactly one record consisting of an unspecified number of fields. And, your sample input file (input.txt), contains exactly four input fields with the 1st field containing:
(Note that the 4th field consists only of one <double-quote> character. Note also that neither of your sample *.txt files are text files (since the last line in both files is incomplete because neither file is terminated by a <newline> character). And, finally, note that the line separators in field 2 in input.txt are DOS <carriage-return><newline> character pairs; not just the normal UNIX line terminating <newline> characters.)
So, if ONLY commas are field separators, why are some whitespace characters in field 2 in the input removed from your desired output?
Why are you calling these text files if they do not meet the qualifications of a text file?
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05-30-2016
Need help with awk
