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Created July 18, 2012 20:22
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Make awk do some grep
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gistfile1.txt
If you want to search field one for (part of) a string:
awk '$1 ~ /search string/ { print $2 }' example.txt
If the search string should match anywhere in the line (all fields):
awk '/search string/ { print $2 }' example.txt
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