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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with awk and accessing variable values within the syntax Post 302537720 by meridionaljet on Saturday 9th of July 2011 01:57:21 PM
Old 07-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
echo "enter the value of type"
read type
awk -v type=$type '{printf("url = \"http://www.example.com/directory/%s/%s/\"\n",type,$1)}' input.file > output.file

Wow, I have no idea why it worked, but it worked. Thanks a lot.
 

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