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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Does awk have parameter substitution? Post 302942749 by Don Cragun on Friday 1st of May 2015 01:05:00 AM
Old 05-01-2015
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Originally Posted by Michael Stora
Thanks for pointing out the extra dollar sign. I made a typo while posting.

I am asking if there is an equivilent in awk to the BASH example (only awk variables involved--no shell variables involved).

Mike
I'm sorry my crystal ball didn't work.

Giving an awk expression with no context indicating whether the $1 you showed us in your awk expression is a shell command line variable or a field from an input line makes it hard to guess at what you're trying to do.

If you would show us an example of what you're really trying to do instead of giving us part of one line of an awk script and (making us guess at the context) is likely to get you suggestions that will come closer to doing what you want.
 

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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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