Awk print matched column if exists else print not found

Question

My text file looks like below

date=\"2017-10-10\" ip=192.168.1.1:22 inbound=100 outbound=100
date=\"2017-10-10\" ip=192.168.1.1:22 inbound=100
date=\"2017-10-10         


        

Answer 1

Whenever you have name=value pairs in your input it's best to first create an array of those mappings (f[] below) and then you can just print (or do anything else with) the values by name:

$ awk -v n="inbound" -F'[ =]+' '{delete f; for (i=1;i

Want to do the same for "outbound" or any other field? Just init the name variable n accordingly"

$ awk -v n="outbound" -F'[ =]+' '{delete f; for (i=1;i