[SOLVED] grep to search data in first column

Issue

I have a text file with two columns.

Product   Cost
Abc....def  10
Abc.def     20
ajsk,,lll   04

I want to search for product starts from "Abc" and ends with "def" then for those entries I want to add Cost. I have used :

grep "^Abc|def$" myfile 

but it is not working

Solution

Use awk. cat myfile | awk '{print $1}' | grep query

Answered By - Heman Gandhi

Answer Checked By - Pedro (WPSolving Volunteer)