[SOLVED] AWK to perform like GREP

chuafengru · 07-12-2010, 03:55 AM

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?

druuna · 07-12-2010, 04:11 AM

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.