Awk search command is not working

[saurabhgayali]

Print each line where the 5th field is equal to ‘abc123’:

awk '$5 == "abc123"' file.txt
It doesnt work

WHile following command works confirming that data is present in file

Print each line where the 5th field is equal to ‘abc123’:
awk '/abc123/' file.txt

[icaromsc]

You should call print $0 to get all the fields of the line
Try this:
awk '($5 == "abc123"){print $0}' file.txt