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Old 08-04-2005
Assigning nawk output to variables

I do a lot of command line scripting to capture data from files or other command output. I've checked in a number of Unix and scripting books but for the life of me I can't find out how to asign field data from nawk output into variables that I can manipulate later. For example, reading a two column file like /etc/hosts:

cat /etc/hosts | nawk '{print $1 "\t" $2}'

How can I get $1 and $2 into variables like $IP and $NAME?
 

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