On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:17 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
> Hi
> Quick question for the list
>
> I am trying to do something like this
> #!/bin/bash
> SOMEVARIABLE
> VAR2="$( awk -F, "/$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/")"
>
> Now I have problems with my " I can't use ' because I want SOMEVARIABLE
> to be subsituted I have tried
>
> VAR2="$( awk -F, \"/$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/\")"
>
> but it starts going haywire!
>
> Alex
Have you tried protecting the variable from the shell per the "man bash"
instructions like this:
VAR2="$( awk -F, "/${SOMEVARIABLE}/ /some/pathtoafile/")"
BTW - that line above looks a little odd. I'd try it like this instead:
VAR2=`awk -F, '/${SOMEVARIABLE}/ /some/pathtoafile/'`
The enclosing a variable between curly braces, eg, ${foo} will force the
shell to expand the variable's content regardless of whether it is inside
single or double quotes. IIRC.
Cheers,
James
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