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Problem passing shell variable to awk
Hi feherke. I've got it working now too, and figured out the problem. Instead of using "name" as the awk variable (as in the example I posted), I had been using "sub" (as shorthand for "research subjects"). I didn't realize that "sub" is an awk function, which is what caused my problem. Would... -
Problem passing shell variable to awk
I am in the bash shell and have a file "data.txt" that includes names and data-points in rows, like this: bill/bill_data/point1 bill/bill_data/point2 bill/bill_data/point3 frank/frank_data/point1 frank/frank_data/point2 frank/frank_data/point3 etc. I want to write the data corresponding to...
