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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing a parameter to AWK Post 302537627 by Raamc on Friday 8th of July 2011 07:46:54 PM
Old 07-08-2011
Passing a parameter to AWK
Hi All,

I am trying to pass a parameter to AWK on my KSH shell prompt as below.

var1=2
echo $var1
awk -v var2=${var1} '{print var2}' testfile.txt

I am passing the input file (testfile) to awk to get some o/p. It is having 10 records.

When I run AWK, it is throwing the following errors
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


I googed this forum, the syntax i am using is correct, but dont know why it is failing in this case.

My OS is SOLARIES,is there any difference syntax for AWK for passing parameters to AWK on sun solaries?

Can any one please help.

---------- Post updated at 12:46 AM ---------- Previous update was at 12:38 AM ----------

Hi All,

It got solved. The correct syntax is

awk '{print var2}' var2="$var1" test111.xls

I think there is syntax change in Sun solaries from BASH it seems.

In bash, generally we pass -v option before print, but in solaries, this is working if I use -v option after print.
 

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