Doubt in awk command

[Nirmalkumar]

Hi all,

column1
--------

33
44
55
66


In the above column1 the value 55 is unknown to me.In this case please provide the script to display 55 using awk command.


Help apperciated..

Thanks,
Nirmal

[Sandman!]

Please clarify what you mean by "the value 55 is unknown to me"? And assuming that you want to display the value 55 use the below awk construct:

# awk '$1==55' infile

[Mel Burslan]

if you know every other value but the 55, then, you can do something like this:

grep -v -e 33 -e 44 -e 66 /tmp/myfile

will only give you

column1
--------

55

output. It is not awk and it is not feasible in files which are not small, but since I don't know the nature of your request, this might be useful.

[Sundar_7]

Nirmal,

As with the above folks, I am not really sure what you are looking for.

If I were to make a wild guess, I think you want to print the first field of the third record in the file ?

# awk 'NR ==3 {print $1}' /inputfile

Sundar.

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Nirmal,
awk '/55/' infile

HTH,
Art