Question

Assuming the following input:

$ cat example
{many lines of text}

Col1 Col2  Col3
foo  bar   2 
bar  baz   3
baz  bar   8
bar  foo   0
foo  baz   9
baz  bar   3

{many more lines of text}

The following two awk snippets parse out the data I’m after:

cat example | awk -v 'RS=\n\n' '/^Col1 /' | awk '$2 == "bar" && $3 > 1 {print $1}'
foo
baz
baz

How do I combine the two snippets into a single bit of awk, e.g.

awk '
...
...
...
' example

Answer 1

You can do:

awk '/^Col1 /,/^$/{ if( $2 == "bar" && $3 > 1 ) print $1}' example