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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using an awk internal variable as parameter for an external array Post 302550325 by Corona688 on Thursday 25th of August 2011 10:17:24 AM
Old 08-25-2011
An easy way to generate a string of "thing1 thing2 thing3 ..." from an array using any separator you want is:

Code:
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS="|" # adjust to whatever you want
LIST="${ARR[*]}"
IFS="${OLDIFS}"

awk -v LIST="$LIST" 'BEGIN { split(LIST, A, "|"); } ....

which will turn the array ARR=( 1 2 3 ) into LIST="1|2|3" for easy feeding into awk, which splits it on the same separator, into the awk array A.
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atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
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