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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Pass filename to AWK in bash script Post 302684683 by nixie on Friday 10th of August 2012 12:58:59 AM
Old 08-10-2012
How to Pass filename to AWK in bash script (Solved)

Thanks bartus11... you got it! Can't believe I missed that... wasted about an hour messing with this code before posting here.

Thanks also to jim mcnamara for the reply... didn't have to bother restructuring because the problem was just a stupid typo.
 

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