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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting assign values from awk output - help Post 302206809 by ghostdog74 on Wednesday 18th of June 2008 01:24:25 PM
Old 06-18-2008
you can assign variables back to the shell using set as era has mentioned
Code:
set -- `awk 'NR==1{print NF}END{print NF}' file`

or just do whatever you need to do in awk itself
Code:
awk 'NR==1{first=NF}END{ 
   print NF #do something.
   print f # do something
}' file

 

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