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Old 03-12-2008
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Originally Posted by jkl_jkl
I mean to say
if the a pattern, suppose "AA" is found as 2nd field then
print
found in line: 2
found in line: 4

and if "AA" is not found as 2nd field in any of the lines in the file, then
print
not found

HTH,
jkl_jkl
Please try this
Code:
awk -F ":" '$2 ~ /BB/{print "found in line - "NR;f=1;next} END{if(!f) print "Not found"}' my.txt
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