passing value to shell variable

trynew · #1 (**permalink**) 06-24-2002

dear all

How to passing the parameters or results to outside of the AWK program? anyone can help

awk '{print $1}' file1 > $a ?

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2002

I'm not completely sure I understand what you want to do.

But, if you are attempting to set a variable, you can try the following:

sh or ksh
$ xx=`awk '{print $1}' /etc/hosts`

csh
set mm=`awk '{print $1}' /etc/hosts`

You just have to be careful since a file could contain information than you can put into one variable (Sorry, don't recall the limit off the top of my head)

trynew · #3 (**permalink**) 06-24-2002

it's worked, Thanks RTM

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