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Old 05-16-2014
Tcsh command for assigning output of awk to variable

Hi I have a text file with 2 values and I am trying to assign each value to a variable and then write those to text files.

So if the textfile is data.txt with 2 values x and y

I want to assign mean=x, and stdev=y and then write these out in text files alongwith the id ($id has already been set earlier on in a larger script).

say
Code:
 echo $mean $id > mean.$id.text
     echo $stdev $id > stdev.$id.text

later on I want to go through and concatenate all the mean values for all id's into 1 file and similarly create another one for stdev.
so far I tried this (after looking through various threads)---
Code:
        mean=$( awk '{ print $1}' data.txt)
	echo $mean $id  > mean.txt

doesn't work, says illegal variable name.



thanks for any help.

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