How locate a field on a certain line

[bholav]

How do I tell AWK to look for a certain "field" on a "certain" line

 

[olded]

Bholav:

1) I'm using nawk on Solaris 7. You might have to use awk or gawk?

2) You didn't say what the field delimiter was. I assumed a default. If it's different uncomment out the other line and choose a proper value for FS.

Regards,


Ed


CF=2 # certain field
CL=3 # certain line
########nawk -v cf=$CF -v cl=$CL ' BEGIN { FS="|" }
nawk -v cf=$CF -v cl=$CL '
{
if(cl == NF)
printf("%s\n", $cf)

} ' input.file

 

[olded]

Hi:

Man, let's try that again! Sorry:


1) I'm using nawk on Solaris 7. You might have to use awk or gawk?

2) You didn't say what the field delimiter was. I assumed a default. If it's different uncomment out the other line and choose a proper value for FS.

Regards,


Ed


CF=2 # certain field
CL=3 # certain line
########nawk -v cf=$CF -v cl=$CL ' BEGIN { FS="|" }
nawk -v cf=$CF -v cl=$CL '
{
if(cl == NR)
printf("%s\n", $cf)

} ' input.file

 

[marsd]

Also this:

awk -v n=lineno ' BEGIN
{
printf "Word to look for on %s:", lineno
getline var < &quot;-&quot;
}
{
if (NR == n) {
for (x=0 ; x <= NF ; x++) {
if ($x == var) {
print $x
}
}
}
}