awk ignores leading blanks when assigning fields. The default command is print.

awk '$1 ~ /^Linux1/'

Is what you want.

awk ignores leading blanks when assigning fields. The default command is print.

awk '$1 ~ /^Linux1/'

Is what you want.

Detailed explanation:

• $1 tells awk to look at the first "column".
• ~ tells awk to do a RegularExpression match /..../ is a Regular expression.
• Within the RE is the string Linux and the special character ^.
• ^ causes the RE to match from the start (as opposed to matching anywhere in the line).

Seen together: Awk will match a regular expression with "Linux" at the start of the first column.

awk ignores leading blanks. The default command is print.

awk '/^Linux1/'

Is what you want.

awk ignores leading blanks when assigning fields. The default command is print.

awk '$1 ~ /^Linux1/'

Is what you want.