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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Wildcards when using awk -F Post 303005331 by fgarvis88 on Tuesday 17th of October 2017 06:43:51 AM
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Wildcards when using awk -F

Trying to filter information when using awk -F. I'm trying to use wildcards to match a range of values but can't get the syntax to work.

Since I'm using awk -F I'm setting my delimiter then entering specific information abcde but if I want to do abcd(e-9) how do I make that work? Do I place the escape character in the quotes?

Any help is appreciated

Last edited by rbatte1; 10-17-2017 at 08:20 AM.. Reason: Added ICODE tags for clarity
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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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