Is there any way to use grep in column 2 in a file ? 
I want get all lines in a file whose column 2 haves actual date.

cat file

    eagle   04/31/2001
    bee     09/15/2002
    dog     12/03/2004   --> I want output  
    cats    12/03/2004   --> these 2 lines !

Thanks.

In article <ddf392ea.0412031323.2afa1777@posting.google.com>,
 contracer11@uol.com.br (Shiva MahaDeva) wrote:

> Is there any way to use grep in column 2 in a file ? 
> I want get all lines in a file whose column 2 haves actual date.
> 
> cat file
> 
>     eagle   04/31/2001
>     bee     09/15/2002
>     dog     12/03/2004   --> I want output  
>     cats    12/03/2004   --> these 2 lines !
> 
> Thanks.

Use awk or nawk.  It's made for this sort of thing.

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Shiva MahaDeva wrote:
> Is there any way to use grep in column 2 in a file ? 
> I want get all lines in a file whose column 2 haves actual date.
> 
> cat file
> 
>     eagle   04/31/2001
>     bee     09/15/2002
>     dog     12/03/2004   --> I want output  
>     cats    12/03/2004   --> these 2 lines !
> 
> Thanks.

Use awk:

awk '$2 ~ /12\/03\/2004/ {print $0)' file

On 3 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0800, contracer11@uol.com.br (Shiva MahaDeva)
wrote:

>Is there any way to use grep in column 2 in a file ? 
>I want get all lines in a file whose column 2 haves actual date.
>
>cat file
>
>    eagle   04/31/2001
>    bee     09/15/2002
>    dog     12/03/2004   --> I want output  
>    cats    12/03/2004   --> these 2 lines !
>

Grep doesn't care about the column. Use AWK if you do. But in this
case, 

grep "12/03/2004" file  

Would work just fine.


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$ cat > /tmp/aaa <<EOF
eagle         04/31/2001
12/03/2004    09/15/2002
dog           12/03/2004
cats          12/03/2004
EOF

$ grep '[^ ].* *12/03/2004' /tmp/aaa
dog           12/03/2004
cats          12/03/2004
$

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Shiva MahaDeva ???????:
> Is there any way to use grep in column 2 in a file ? 
> I want get all lines in a file whose column 2 haves actual date.
> 
> cat file
> 
>     eagle   04/31/2001
>     bee     09/15/2002
>     dog     12/03/2004   --> I want output  
>     cats    12/03/2004   --> these 2 lines !
> 
> Thanks.