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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to escape "*" using awk inside script? Post 303046050 by charlesep on Wednesday 22nd of April 2020 11:05:03 AM
Old 04-22-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
it's not a matterof the shell version. It's a matter of using double-quotes when doing var assignment and (more importantly) when echo-ing the variable value.
See my initial response with colored double-quotes.
I asked about the bash version because rogerben said he got an error, which doesn't happen to me with the same code
To assign the value to a variable I use the backtick and it works. Taking up your code
Code:
a=`awk '$2=="jij" {print $3}' testfile`
echo "$a"

Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Also there's no need to use cat - awk is quite happy with reading the supplied file to read.
I know, I just replaced the grep of the rogerben code with cat
 

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