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Passing ksh variables into awk
Hi, I am new to system administration stuff. I just wanted to store some files in the FTP sites of the server. My question is how do I do that, and where the files are actually stored. Thanks in advance Sucheta- suchupramod
- Post #13
- Forum: IBM: AIX
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How to pass an awk variable to shell scripts?
Hi , I have the same problem, and I think I did not understand from the code snippet how to get back variables from awk to shell. My code looks like this: read string awk -v VAR="$string" 'BEGIN { split (VAR,arr," ") {print arr[2]} }' I want to get the values stored in...- suchupramod
- Post #6
- Forum: AWK
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Passing ksh variables into awk
Hi, is the output from awk '{printf var}' always redirected to a file. In this case when I exactly replicated your code, it says can't open db2 for reading or writing(This file was not there before). When I created a file called as db2, it does not throw any error, but still returns an empty db2...- suchupramod
- Post #11
- Forum: IBM: AIX
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Passing ksh variables into awk
Thanks DB, I used the same as you suggested i.e; used '{print var}' instead of '{print $var}', but says the same thing. Any other idea Sucheta- suchupramod
- Post #9
- Forum: IBM: AIX
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Passing ksh variables into awk
Hi I am using bourne shell and awk embedded in a shell script. I have been trying to use the trick of parameter passing to the awk, but it does not seem to work. Anyone has any idea? What I did was: #!/bin/bash data="some_value" awk -v var="$data" '{print $var}' The output...- suchupramod
- Post #7
- Forum: IBM: AIX
