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[emodendroket]

Writing awk to do it is definitely more work than calling obj.Property though.

[qwertyuiop924 → emodendroket]

  $mysql_cmd|awk -F\| '$2 == "what you want the second row to match" {print $0}'

Not that much more work. And you can do better if you can coax mysql to emit proper DSV.

[emodendroket → qwertyuiop924]

That kind of stuff adds up fast in an interactive shell.

[qwertyuiop924 → emodendroket]

...Which is why you write a script to do it if it comes up often.

Extendable tooling!