Grep search Help

Lets say I had a text file called "file" and it looked like this

1234567|HI|My name is Bob|Dave
8911123|NI|My name is Dave|Bob

And I wanted to search the file in the third bracket position (where it says "My name is Bob" and "My name is Dave") and I wanted it to search for "Bob". So only the "Bob" from the first line would show up, not the "Bob" from the second line.

How would I do that?

Actually awk would be easier.

Thanks worked perfectly!

If I were to add another search to this search and I wanted to search for the word "Alf" but it was in the 5th position (after the 5th '|') How would I add that onto it?

Like this...?

Also, lets say I have a file listing numbers on different lines from 1 - 100.

For example...

1
2
3
4
5
...
100

How would I search 56-95 (inclusive)?

Check the documentation for the awk program. There's a very simple way of and-ing two conditions together. Or cheat and look below.


Any program supporting scripting would work fine (awk, Perl, PHP, bash...). Continuing with awk,

Got it! I just had to use the && symbol for and-ing the two conditions. Thanks so much for your help.