Don't print lines where field#1 starts with contents of field#4
Don't print lines where field#1 starts with contents of field#4
Trying to exclude lines where field#1 starts with contents of field#4. Otherwise print line.
INPUT
f1|f2|f3|f4
Cheese Board|xx|xxx|Cheese
French Cheese|yy|yyy|Cheese
OUTPUT NEEDED
f1|f2|f3|f4
French Cheese|yy|yyy|Cheese
CODE TRIED (not working with carat^)
awk ‘ BEGIN "
if ( $1 !~ ^$4 ) print $0
‘ file
2 Answers
2
$ awk -F'|' 'index($1,$4)!=1' file
f1|f2|f3|f4
French Cheese|yy|yyy|Cheese
Could you please try following.
awk -F'[ |]' 'FNR==1print;next $1!=$NF' Input_file
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