08-31-2013
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Originally Posted by
RudiC
No - your mixing up shell and awk, a program.
pointsb is a shell variable. The `...` is the old, deprecated form of command substitution. awk is the program being called, the -v...s are awk-variable-definitions used to transfer shell variables to awk variables, the literal string '...' is an awk script, and finally the awk output is being assigned to pointsb.
Is it not possible to write the line of code without awk then?
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