prz wrote: > another question from newbie .. > is it possible with grep to select only the rows where the second word > applies, because the pattern can occur at different places like : > row 1 : xxxx yyyy zzz > row 2 : yyyy xxxx zzz > I need only the row where word 2 = yyyy > grep yyyy would also return row 2 > Thanks for all info > Best Regards, Guy Przytula
Ditto that this is not a cygwin question per say. I would use awk. awk '$2 = "yyyy"' filename -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/