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Old 11-18-2009
How do we pass multiple arguments into awk
How do we pass multiple arguments into awk :

name=john
age=12

now i have to pass both age and name into awk.. how to do it?

like : awk -v var=...
# 2  
Old 11-18-2009
Use -v
Code:
awk -v name=john -v age=12 'BEGIN{print name, age}'

# 3  
Old 11-18-2009
If you don't need to use the variable in the BEGIN patten, you can also do :
Code:
awk 'awk script code' name=john age=12 inputfile

Jean-Pierre.
# 4  
Old 11-18-2009
thanks a lot guys
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Old 11-18-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by aigles
If you don't need to use the variable in the BEGIN patten, you can also do :
Code:
awk 'awk script code' name=john age=12 inputfile

Jean-Pierre.
So despite the "BEGIN" drawback, this one has the advantage of being more portable. If you use GNU or Sun's xpg4-awk, -v will work.
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