Hi,
I am trying to write a program that reads the users file, list them and allow user to view/delete the their files but was having problem with the awk statement. Here is my code:
find . -user "`whoami`" -type f -exec ls -ld \{\} \; > `whoami`tmp
cat -n `whoami`tmp | more
echo "V(VIEW), D(DELETE), Q(QUIT)."
echo "\t\t Enter selection : \c"
read answer arg1 arg2 arg3
echo
case $answer in
V|v) echo $answer $arg1 $arg3
awk -F/ 'NR==$arg1,NR==$arg3 {print $2}' `whoami`tmp|while read filename;do
more $filename
done;;
# D|d) awk 'NR == 2 , NR == 2 {print $9}' skvart|while read f
ilename; do
# rm -f $filename
#done;;
Q|q) exit 0;;
*) echo "\t\t Invalid option"
esac
done
exit 0

My issue is that when I did the following it works:
awk -F/ 'NR==2,NR==4 {print $2}' suzitmp

but in my program
awk -F/ 'NR==$arg1,NR==$arg3 {print $2}' `whoami`tmp|while read filename;do
echo $filename
done;;
It display nothing.

If anyone can help me please.

Thank you

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