On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Alexander Samad wrote:
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!
Are you sure you don't want:
VAR2="$( awk -F, \"/$SOMEVARIABLE/\" /some/pathtoafile/)"
i.e. you're not giving awk the file as a separate argument?
Another way of achieving this if you've got quoting issues is to make it an awk variable:
VAR2="$( awk -F, -v somevar=\"$SOMEVARIABLE\" '$0 ~ somevar {awk expr}'
/some/pathtoafile/)"Oh look what google has: "6.2 Using Shell Variables in Programs" http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Using-Shell-Variables.html
Cheers,
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