What I want to achieve
- Search a word next to a specific phrase in a file with the Linux shell command
How to tackle
Use the grep
command and the awk
command.
$ grep -w "search_word" file_name | awk '{print $2}'
Explanations
- by the
-w
optiongrep
matches only whole words, preventing partial matches -
{print $2}
withawk
prints the second word on each line
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