Gawk matching
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regex
Used to filter lines, like grep.
echo ' 1920x1080 foo 5760x1080 ' | awk '$0 ~ /[0-9]+x[0-9]+/ { print $0 }'
match
match checks for a matching string, returns char number if found, otherwise returns a 0
match($0, "searchterm")echo "abcdefg" | awk '{var=match($0, "cd"); print var}' #> 3 echo "abcdefg" | awk '{var=match($0, "zef"); print var}' #> 0 echo "abcdefg" | awk '{ if(match($0, "cd")) { print "match found"; } }' #> match found