Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by tmalik79

My output is in variable and i want to read that variable and print the required number.

The above solutions are perfectly working with outfile. But I dot want to create file to store values and process that.

This is what i am trying here.

dategrep()
{
varlinenum=$1
varSESSTRANS_CL="$(egrep -n "<\/SESSTRANSFORMATIONINST>" tmpsess9580.txt | cut -d":" -f1)"
echo $varSESSTRANS_CL
echo $varSESSTRANS_CL | awk '{if($1>'$varlinenum'){print $1;exit}}'
}

dategrep 8

Output of the echo $varSESSTRANS_CL is..
5
7
10
13
18
21

Code:

echo $varSESSTRANS_CL | awk '{if($1>'$varlinenum'){print $1;exit}}'

this stmt is not working or not printing anything..