04-03-2007
How do I pass a variable to awk?
I have an awk statement where I Need to pass an environment variable but I cannot get it to work:
My evironment varible examples below:
$FILE1=/dev/fs/file.new
$FILE2=/dev/fs/file.old
Code below:
awk -F"|" '
BEGIN {
while( getline < "$FILE1" )
{ arr[$1]=1 }
}
arr[($1)] != 1 { print }
' $FILE2
I cannot hard code the file names into the awk statement. I need to apss the file name as a varibale. but my above awk is not reading $FILE1 as the value it is defined as in the environment.
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