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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Spaced input causing awk error Post 302582503 by balajesuri on Friday 16th of December 2011 08:00:05 AM
Old 12-16-2011
Code:
[root@hostname ~]# grep "root" /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
[root@hostname ~]# username=root
[root@hostname ~]# awk -v val=$username -F: '$1==val{print $3}' /etc/passwd
0

Works for me.
 

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