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by jnieuwen
only match on specified field in awk
Today I discovered that you can let an regular expression in awk only match to a specified field. i.e. normally I would try to do something like:
/^[^ ]?.*2.*[ ]/ { print $2 }
to check if the second field contains a 2 and then print it. But awk has the ~ operator which makes this much easier:
$2 ~ /2/ {print $2}
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