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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Does awk have parameter substitution? Post 302942728 by Michael Stora on Thursday 30th of April 2015 08:19:04 PM
Old 04-30-2015
Does awk have parameter substitution?

Can I specify a default value to a variable in AWK like BASH in one statement using parameter substitution?

BASH example:
Code:
argument=${$1-"default if empty"} (BASH)

I know I can do:
Code:
argument=$1; sub ( "^$", "default if empty", argument) (AWK)

Mike
 

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