shell - Search for a column by name in awk -

i have file has many columns. let "employee_number" "employee_name" "salary". want display entries in column giving or part of column name. example if input "name" want employee names printed. possible in simple manner using awk? thanks

given script getcol.awk follows:

begin {     colname = argv[1]     argv[1] = ""     getline     (i = 1; <= nf; i++) {         if ($i ~ colname) {             break;         }     }     if (i > nf) exit }  {print $i} 

... , input file test.txt:

apple   banana  candy   deer    elephant   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e   b   c   d   e 

... command:

$ awk -f getcol.awk b <test.txt 

... gives following output:

b b b b b b b 

note output text not include first line of test file, treated header.