need output with certain field

[frankli]

hi I want to get the output only for 2nd field is "partition", can somebody point out what I did wrong? thanks.

[root@box1 tmp]# /sbin/swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda2 partition 16779884 0 -1
/addswap file 20482943 0 -2

I did

/sbin/swapon -s | awk '/$2=="partition"/ {print $3}'

but no output.

Regards!

 

[PHV]

/sbin/swapon -s | awk '$2=="partition" {print $3}'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[frankli]

Aha! yes! thanks PH.