AWK to perform like GREP
 

Hi guys,

Im trying to use awk to do matching in only a specific column

example.txt:
www.google.com www.example.com
www.google.com/search www.example2.com

i used:

awk '{ (if $1 == "http://www.google.com") print $2}' example.txt

this awk statement only returns the first line, and i cant seems to make it perform in a way to match based on keywords like GREP. Is there any way to make display the other lines which contains "google" also?

Hi,

If you want to search field one for (part of) a string:

awk '$1 ~ /www.google.com/ { print $2 }' example.txt

If the search string should match anywhere in the line (all fields):

awk '/www.google.com/ { print $2 }' example.txt

Hope this helps.