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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using current line in a command in AWK Post 302488298 by m4rty on Sunday 16th of January 2011 02:21:49 PM
Old 01-16-2011
Data Using current line in a command in AWK

Hi, Im trying to get current line in the AGREP command I use in AWK. My script looks like this:

Code:
list.txt
car
bus

checklist.txt
cer
buss

cat list.txt | awk -v mycmd="$(agrep -2 -i $0 checklist.txt)" '{print $mycmd}'

It doesnt work. How can I get the current line in the $0 variable? Or is there any different solution? I need to go through each line in list.txt, search & compare it in checklist.txt and get a result.

Thank u for ur responses.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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