exporting AWK variables to unix shell variable

[applebala]

Hi

I have this awk script and I want to export the number of records to Unix shell !!!

awk -F: '$1 !~ "#" { print $1 }; END { lines=NR }' filename

I want to access the "lines" variable in Unix shell.

Can anyone help me...
thanks in advance
Bala

 

[flogrr]

Hi Bala,

sh:

varib=`awk -F: '$1 !~ /#/ { print $1 } END { lines=NR ; print lines }' bala | tee alab | tail -1`
echo $varib
more alab


csh:

set varib=`awk -F: '$1 !~ /#/ { print $1 } END { lines=NR ; print lines }' bala | tee alab | tail -1`
echo $varib
more alab

Hope this helps you!


flogrr
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