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Old 03-14-2015
New problem with awk using bash

Hi!

I have a new problem with awk, this time I think is because I'm using it in bash and I don't know how to put the valor of the variable in awk. Here is the code:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for i in 1 2 3 4 5
    do     
        a=$i
        b=$[$i+2]
        awk '$1>=a&&$1<=b {print $1,$2,$3}'>asdf test  
        newname="asdf_"$i
        touch $newname
        mv asdf /home/carol/test_bash/$newname
        touch asdf
    done

I think is not taking a and b as values, but if I use $a and $b in awk it doesn't work.

I hope you can help me Smilie
 

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