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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Set a variable from awk output Post 302140199 by Cranie on Thursday 11th of October 2007 07:26:29 AM
Old 10-11-2007
Set a variable from awk output - RESOLVED
I have a file which I am processing using awk to spit out the following:

Code:
export CLIENT=1 ; export USER=1 ; export METABASE=1 ; export TASK=1 ; export TOTAL=3

What i want to do now is execute that within the script so those variables are available to other commands. I've tried piping the output to ksh (but obviously thats only for the existance of the ksh being called. I've tried some variations of ` and $(()) $( ) of the output but can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas?

Thanks
Last edited by Cranie; 10-11-2007 at 10:57 AM.. Reason: Resolved.
 

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