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Make awk do some grep
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| 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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