bash - How to read rows and columns via awk with special character separator -

can done more in single command?

read line 10 , column 2 file separator ^

cat file | awk 'fnr==10 {print}' | awk -v  fs=^ '{print $2}'  

if ^ main/common field separator records - it's enough apply following awk expression:

awk -f'^' 'nr==10{ print $2; exit }' file 

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