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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assign value to external variables from awk Post 302531973 by yazu on Sunday 19th of June 2011 05:15:24 AM
Old 06-19-2011
Quote:
Is there a way to assign values returned by awk to external variables from inside the awk command?
No. But maybe you need something like this:
Code:
% cat testfile                                                         
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
app@m11 ~/tmp
% cat testfile | tr ',' ' ' | while read name year grade1 grade2 grade3
do
  echo $grade1
  echo $grade2
  echo $grade3
done
Grade1
Grade2
Grade3
Grade1
Grade2
Grade3
Grade1
Grade2
Grade3

 

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