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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Providing variable contents to awk Post 302605024 by compguy74 on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 02:30:34 PM
Old 03-06-2012
Thanks, Corona. As I said, I'm relatively new to Unix, and I'm still learning what can and can't be done, and the best way to do things. I'm still reading up on awk, and learning how to use it, but as a programming language in itself, it's a lot to take in.

I'm trying your solution now, and I'll reply the status when it's done. The script takes a bit of time to run.

---------- Post updated at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:57 PM ----------

Thanks again, Corona. I reworked my script using just awk, and removing the while loop, and it worked as I'd hoped.

I appreciate the help.
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