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Old 01-12-2005
Trying to create variable, value not being held
I tried creating a variable with the awk command. The correct value is being printed to the screen; however, the variable max is not being set. The command "echo $max" is null. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


cat test.txt:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-01-12 20:51 file2005-01-12

awk -F"[ :]" '{max=$7*3600+$8*60; print max}' test.txt
75060
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Old 01-12-2005
Quote:
The correct value is being printed to the screen
Okay - that is from your print statement

Quote:
however, the variable max is not being set.
And it shouldn't be in the example since you didn't set it. Awk doesn't set it for external use - to set it externally from awk, try

Example (csh)
set max=`awk -F"[ :]" '{max=$7*3600+$8*60; print max}' test.txt`
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Old 01-13-2005
RTM,

Thank you for the quick response. The variable is now being set.
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