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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Providing variable contents to awk Post 302605010 by compguy74 on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 12:22:25 PM
Old 03-06-2012
Providing variable contents to awk
Hello, All. This is my first post here, and I expect that the answer is simple, but I can't find it. Might be the way I'm searching. I'm fairly new to Unix/Linux, and I'm writing a Korn Shell Script. I am trying to provide a value that is already in a variable to awk so that awk can pull out the second column.

An example of what I'm trying is here:

Code:
 
for g in `cat $outfilepath/$outfile`
do
 
$g | awk -F, '{print $2}'
 
done

The line should be comma-separated, and I'm trying to pull out the second entry, but all this does is print out the contents of $g, which doesn't do me any good.

Once I can pull out the second entry, I plan on using it for some decision making, but that's secondary right now.

Any help would be appreciated.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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