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Old 12-29-2008
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Originally Posted by krishmaths View Post
Your approach is right. Just needs a little bit of tweaking in the awk syntax.


Code:
echo "Please enter your full name:"
read name
echo $name | awk '{print"Hello Mr." $2}'
that should be $0 instead of $2