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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk for variable with a space Post 302560452 by itkamaraj on Thursday 29th of September 2011 11:47:59 PM
Old 09-30-2011
Code:
 
$ var="test"
$ echo "one two three" | awk '{$3="'$var'"; print $0}'
one two test
 
$ echo "one two three" | nawk -v var=$var '{$3=var;print $0}'
one two test

---------- Post updated at 09:17 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:15 AM ----------

with space

Code:
 
$ echo $var
my test

$ echo "one two three" | nawk -v var="$var" '{$3=var;print $0}'  
one two my test

 

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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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