how to use AWK to print/filter data

I needed to just print out some columns in a file to see if I was missing something or not, so ... AWK to the rescue.

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• Take nth column in a text file - I used the second answer by Tom …

Here is how you assign what comes back from an echo statement to a bash variable.

How to assign the result of echo to a variable in bash script

MY_CHOICE=`echo $1 | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"`