Grep help needed

[desperado618]

When viewing a file, I use the following to produce the desired output:

cat file | awk '{print $2, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $12}'

I would like to use grep to only display when $2 is a particular value.
For example, if $2 is numeric, I may only want to see the output when $2 is 500.

Please advise.
Thanks

[meton_magis]

cat file | awk '$2 == "500" {print $2, $6, ..... $12}'

Basicaly this says

" if the second collum is equal to 500, than print yada yada."

awk uses a patern / command structure. if the patern is matched, perform what is in the { }, the default just matches everything.
I dont think you can restrict grep to a specific collum, but why would you want to, awk can do it just fine, and will do it faster (2 processes instead of one)