awk OR statement
Yes. There's logical OR ||
that you can use:
awk '{if ($2=="abc" || $2=="def") print "blah" }'
You would not write this code in awk:
awk '{if ($2=="abc") print "blah"}'
you would write this instead:
awk '$2=="abc" {print "blah"}'
and to add an "or" would be either of these depending on what you're ultimately trying to do:
awk '$2~/^(abc|def)$/ {print "blah"}'
awk '$2=="abc" || $2=="def" {print "blah"}'
awk '
BEGIN{ split("abc def",tmp); for (i in tmp) targets[tmp[i]] }
$2 in targets {print "blah"}
'
That last one would be most appropriate if you have several strings you want to match.
awk '{if ($2=="abc" || $2=="def") print "blah"}'