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Old 05-16-2009
Question Assigning Variable to AWK statement
Hi,

The following command runs on in the Korn shell prompt. however i want to output the value of this to a variable. Can anyone provide a solution?

echo 'ABC,DEF,"G,HI,J",KLM,"MNi,O"'| awk -F "\"" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if(i%2)gsub("\,","~^~",$i)}}1'
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Old 05-16-2009
Code:
var=`your command here`
var=$(your command here)

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Old 05-16-2009
Hi ghostdog74,

Thanks,

That works...
Last edited by ladarlsan; 05-16-2009 at 04:15 AM..
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