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var="ABC"
awk -F"," -v a1="$var" '$2 ~ "^"a1"$" ' file

Code:

var="ABC"
awk -F"," '$2~/^'$var'$/' file

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Originally Posted by videsh77

My problem got complicated since I will have to substitute the string from the variable.

var="ABC"
awk -F"," -v a1="$var" '$2~/^a1$/' Filename

gives me an awk error. How this can be used?

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var="ABC"
awk -F"," -v a1="$var" '$2 == a1' Filename

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