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Date:  Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:34:37 -0400
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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


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