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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using variable in awk command Post 302786187 by hergp on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 04:33:52 AM
Old 03-27-2013
After reformatting your script

Code:
ITERATOR=0
COUNT=`cat test.txt`
echo "$COUNT"

while [ $ITERATOR -lt $COUNT ]
do
    echo $ITERATOR
    echo "$COUNT"
    awk 'NR=="$ITERATOR" {print;exit}' EMAIL_REPORT.CSV >temp_mail.txt
    TO=`cat temp_mail.txt`
    ITERATOR=`expr $ITERATOR + 1`
done

you can see, that your awk script is enclosed in single quotes. They prevent variable expansion, so awk sees the literal text $ITERATOR. Also, since $ITERATOR is supposed to be a number, you don't need the double quotes.

Code:
awk 'NR=='$ITERATOR' {print;exit}' EMAIL_REPORT.CSV >temp_mail.txt

 

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