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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK set FILENAME via user input Post 302170057 by timj123 on Sunday 24th of February 2008 12:07:34 AM
Old 02-24-2008
AWK set FILENAME via user input
I am trying to write a awk script that prompts user for input to set the FILENAME varable. I can get it set, but I think awk is not doing anything with it.

this is what I have so far

Code:
#!/usr/bin/nawk -f

BEGIN {
      FILENAME = ""
      printf "Enter name of file to check in : "
      getline file < "-"
      dir = "/my/very/long/path/here/"
      FILENAME = dir file.dat"
      }

What am I doing wrong??? Is this even possible??
 

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