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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assigning a value to variable Post 302080068 by sirtrancealot on Saturday 15th of July 2006 11:08:01 AM
Old 07-15-2006
Assigning a value to variable
Another newbie to Unix scripting Q..

How do you assign a value resulting from a command, such as awk, to a variable.

I am currently trying:-

$awk '{print $1}' file1 > variable1

with no change to $variable1.

The line:

$awk '{print $1}' file1

does print the first line of the file, so this is not an issue...

Cheers
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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