Bash Shellscript Column Check Error Handling - bash

Question

I am writing a Bash Shellscript. I need to check a file for if $value1 contains $value2. $value1 is the column number (1, 4, 5 as an example) and $value2 ($value2 can be '03', '04' , '09' etc) is the String I am looking for. If the column contains the $value2 then perform a move of the file to an error directory. I was wondering what is the best approach to this. I was thinking awk or is there another way?
$value1 and $value2 are stored in a config file. I have control over what format I can use. Here's an example. The file separator is Octal \036. I just depicted with | below.
Example
$value1=5
$value2=04
Input example1.txt
example|42|udajha|llama|04
example|22|udajha|llama|02
Input example2.txt
example|22|udajha|llama|02
Result
move example1.txt to /home/user/error_directory and example2.txt stays in current directory (nothing happens)

Answer 1

awk can report out which files meet this condition:
awk -F"|" -v columnToSearch=$value1 -v valueToFind=$value2 '$columnToSearch==valueToFind{print FILENAME}' example1.txt example2.txt
Then you can do your mv based on that.
Example using a pipe to xargs (with smaller variable names since you get the idea by now):
awk -F"|" -v c=$value1 -v v=$value2 '$c==v{print FILENAME}' example1.txt example2.txt | xargs -I{} mv -i {} /home/user/error_directory

Answer 2

If you're writing a bash shell script then you can break it down by column using cut.
There are really so many options that it depends on what you want to get done.
In my experience with data I'd use a colon rather than pipe because it allows me to avoid the escape with the 'cut' command.
Changing the data files to:
cat example1.txt
example:42:udajha:llama:04
example:22:udajha:llama:02
I'd write it like this: (adding -x so that you can see the processing, but in your code you'd not need to do that.)
[root#]# cat mysript.sh
#!/bin/sh -x
one=`cat example1.txt | cut -d: -f5`
two=`cat example2.txt | cut -d: -f5`
for i in $one
do
if [ $i -eq $two ]
then
movethis=`grep $two example1.txt`
echo $movethis >> /home/me/error.txt
fi
done
cat /home/me/error.txt
[root#]# ./mysript.sh
++ cat example1.txt
++ cut -d: -f5
+ one='04
02 '
++ cat example2.txt
++ cut -d: -f5
+ two=02
+ for i in '$one'
+ '[' 04 -eq 02 ']'
+ for i in '$one'
+ '[' 02 -eq 02 ']'
++ grep 02 example1.txt
+ movethis='example:22:udajha:llama:02 '
+ echo example:22:udajha:llama:02
+ cat /home/me/error.txt
example:22:udajha:llama:02
You can use any command you live to move your content. Touch, cp, mv, what ever you want to use there.