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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question on awk for finding the column number using a match word Post 302451115 by agama on Sunday 5th of September 2010 08:06:28 PM
Old 09-05-2010
Using the syntax $(i) will allow you to access a column using the contents of a variable, in this case 'i'.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
awk -v col=${1:-1} ' {print $(col)}'

This example accepts a column number from the command line and prints just that column from stdin. If no column number is given, it defaults to the first column.
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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
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