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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk syntax error Post 302565368 by Corona688 on Monday 17th of October 2011 04:50:56 PM
Old 10-17-2011
That's not it either. ${i} is not substituted inside single quotes, at all, ever.

You want awk -v VAR="value" 'VAR == $1'

You can do it without running awk twice for every file:

Code:
awk -v VAR=3 '$1 == VAR { print $2 }'

In fact, you can do so running awk only once for n output files, no shell loop required:

Code:
awk '{ print $2 > "file" $1 "_study.txt" }' < datafile

 

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MKOCTFILE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MKOCTFILE(1)

NAME
mkoctfile - Compile dynamic-load modules for GNU Octave SYNOPSIS
mkoctfile [-IDIR] [-DDEF] [-lLIB] [-LDIR] [-M|--depend] [-c] [-o FILE|--output FILE] [-p VAR|--print VAR] [-s|--strip] [-v|--ver- bose] [-h|-?|--help] file ... DESCRIPTION
mkoctfile is used to compile source C, C++ or Fortran source code in dynamically loadble file for octave(1). OPTIONS
mkoctfile accepts the following options: -IDIR Add include directory DIR to compile commands. -DDEF Add definition DEF to compiler call. -lLIB Add library LIB to link command. -LDIR Add library directory DIR to link command. -M|--depend Generate dependency files (.d) for C and C++ source files. -c Compile but do not link. -o FILE|--output FILE Output file name; default extension is .oct. -p VAR|--print VAR Print configuration variable VAR. Recognized variables are: CPPFLAGS CPICFLAG INCFLAGS CXX F2C CXXFLAGS F2CFLAGS CXXPICFLAG F77 XTRA_CFLAGS FFLAGS XTRA_CXXFLAGS FPICFLAG SHLEXT CC SH_LD CFLAGS SH_LDFLAGS -s|--strip Strip the output file. -v|--verbose Echo commands as they are executed. file Compile or linke file. Recognised file types are .c C source .cc C++ source .C C++ source .cpp C++ source .f Fortran source .F Fortran source .o object file .SH SEE ALSO .BR octave (1). AUTHOR
John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> This manual page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution but may be used by others. GNU Octave 1 November 2002 MKOCTFILE(1)
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