06-24-2012
The inner command substitution will always execute because the shell needs the result before it can fully specify the outer command substitution.
You do not need to use more than one AWK invocation for your task. Just use one. Also, have a look at what the AWK documentation has to say about passing in variables. It's much simpler, cleaner, and less error prone to use the -v option or the var=value parameter style than to embed shell variables in AWK code.
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Alister
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NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
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OPTIONS
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EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
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BEGIN {
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SEE ALSO
gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)