04-01-2003
how to output awk to a variable
Hi folks,
I am wondering how to output awk back to a variable.
I am new to Unix/Linux.
I am trying to get rid of a decimal number and put the output back in a variable for further use in the script. here is how I used awk:
var=$1
echo $var |awk '{print $1 *100}' | $var
echo $var
this gives me an error!
I don't necessarily need to use awk any suggestion of other commands that help get rid of the decimal is fine.
your help will be greatly appreciated!
Bashir
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TZSELECT(8) Linux System Administration TZSELECT(8)
NAME
tzselect - select a timezone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
ENVIRONMENT
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).
FILES
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TZDIR/zone.tab
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.
TZDIR/TZ
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SEE ALSO
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