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Old 06-25-2014
Echo awk output from its variable

Stumped with the formatting of the awk output when used with variables, e.g.:

Code:
awk -F, 'BEGIN {OFS=","} print {$2,$3,$4}' $infile1

produces the desired output (with rows), but when echoing the variable below, the output is one continuous line

Code:
var1=$(awk -F, 'BEGIN {OFS=","} print {$2,$3,$4}' $infile1)
echo $var1

Did i miss something with the awk statement? Please advise and thanks in advance.
 

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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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