I have a file with following 3 columns
1 a1 abcd
2 b1 acdb
3 c1 abcd
I need to extract/print rows based on substring of column3 on position filter (2=="b"), so the output should be
1 a1 abcd
3 c1 abcd
Based on (Print substring of column in awk based on filter) I have tried:
awk -F '\t' -v OFS='\t' '{ $3=substr($3,2,1); print $0 }' a.txt
You may use this awk
:
awk -F '\t' 'substr($3, 2, 1) == "b"' file
1 a1 abcd
3 c1 abcd