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Top Forums Programming take input from a variable as pattern to awk Post 302581438 by pflynn on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 07:28:26 AM
Old 12-13-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by anandrec
hey Pfylnn,

if i reeive backslash it gives me this error:

awk: /Tue
awk: ^ unterminated regexp
sh: line 1: /: is a directory
I guess this is because there is a line break in the $c variable (or maybe somewhere else). Have you checked it? If you just asign directly the value "Tue Dec" to $c it will work. So probably there is something different in $cīs contents.

[EDIT] You can 'chomp' $c before using it to remove the line break:

Code:
$c = `cut -c44-62 last1.txt`;
chomp $c;
$log = ` awk '/$c/' in.txt`;
print $log;

this way awk will not complain any more.
Last edited by pflynn; 12-13-2011 at 08:41 AM..
 

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