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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing Variables to AWK Post 14116 by thehoghunter on Monday 28th of January 2002 12:36:57 PM

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01-28-2002

thehoghunter

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Found on the man page for awk:
Any filename of the
form var=value is treated as an assignment, not a filename,
and is executed at the time it would have been opened if it
were a filename. Variables assigned in this manner are not
available inside a BEGIN rule, and are assigned after previ-
ously specified files have been read.

Is this the possible problem?

thehoghunter

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