I need help!!

[Travis1243]

Hey, I am programming a small script for Solaris in my Unix class at school.. I am building a program that times runners..

Anyway, I am trying to assign a value to a variable using the awk command..

mine is set up like this

set starttime = `awk 'NR == 4 {print $0}' $1`

the $1 being the filename..

This gives me an error, saying it cannot open starttime..

Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong here? Any help would be greatly appriciated..

THanks

Travis

 

[SamBones]

What shell are you using?

If you're using a Korn shell, you would do it like this...
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export STARTTIME=`awk 'NR == 4 {print $0}' $1`
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Hope this helps.