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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't export variable Post 302758235 by newbie2010 on Friday 18th of January 2013 03:57:00 PM
Old 01-18-2013
Beginner's stupidity!

I double checked this script, and the entire problem revolved around the
Code:
[gawk '{print $6}'

.

This was actually NOT correct, and what happened was that if you ran the command without assigning it to a variable with the last gawk it would return NOTHING. However, if you ran the command as part of the variable, the variable assignment would somehow truncate the last gawk, and it would appear ok. But then the subtraction command would not pick it up, and would revert it to the true value, which was NOTHING.

I want to thank everyone for being so helpful and making such an effort to assist with this as it was human error totally!Smilie
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

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). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk 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)
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