how to assign $x variable using awk ?

[twist2tt]

I am working on a ksh script with arguments. one of the argument passed to the script has the following format: parm1,parm2,parm3,parmX.....

I don't know how many parmX will be passed, it's variable and I would like to assign each parmX to a different $X variable using awk.

example:

if I have parm1,parm2,parm3 , I expect to have
$1=parm1
$2=parm2
$3=parm3
....

how to do that with awk ?

thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Why [tt]awk[/tt] ?

whatever='a,b,c'

IFS=,
set -- "$whatever"

[gray]# will print "b"[/gray]
echo "$2"

Tested with (pd)[tt]ksh[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[twist2tt]

thanks a million for your suggestion, it works

Rgds,
Pat