awk to select a column from particular line number

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

The awk command awk -F: '{print $1}' test1 gives the first columns of all the lines in file ,is there some command to get a particular column from particular line .
Any help is appreciated.
thanks arif

2

Yes it is possible to select one particular line from a given file thru awk, but you have to provide here the selection criteria.

3

My file is comma delimited file ,I have to read the first column from second line and store it in a variable.Can you give me the exact syntax
Thanks

4 
var=`awk '{getline;print $1;exit}' file`
5

hope this will work

use nawk on solaris