passing a variable into awk is a issue.. 1

[jdespres]

environment: v445 Solaris 9

I would like to pass a variable to awk....

I need to pass yesterdays date into awk so I can search and print all lines that have yesterdays date in column $7 in format: mm/dd/yy

YESTERDAY=`GetDate -1 '+%m/%d/%y'

bpdbjobs|awk '$7 == "$YESTERDAY"'

This doesn't work.....

Thanks....

Joe

 

[PHV]

What about this ?

bpdbjobs|awk '$7 == "'$YESTERDAY'"'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[jdespres]

hhhhmmmmm........

I thought I tried this combo!

I guess not! It worked!

Thanks!

Joe Despres