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Old 07-23-2012
awk line variable help
I am using Solaris 10 and have no GNU products installed. I have the following awk code and would like to add a variable. I believe awk doesn't accept variables, but I think nawk can. I would like to replace the red higlighted part of my code with a variable. If nawk is the answer how do I change my awk code to nawk code?

Code:
awk '$2 ~/^0:/ && $6 ~/^04/ && $7 ~/^2[48]/ && $8 ~/^00|^0F|^1F/ {print x;print;getline;print}; {x=$0}

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Old 07-23-2012
I don't have access to a Sun box tonight to try this, but I believe this will work in awk, and should work in nawk for sure.

Code:
awk '$2 ~/^0:/ && match( $6, "^" v ) && $7 ~/^2[48]/ && $8 ~/^00|^0F|^1F/ {print x;print;getline;print}; {x=$0}' v="04" input-file

If you are piping data in, obviously omit the input-file name. I just wanted to show that it goes after the assignment of v.
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Old 07-23-2012
Thanks for the help. Let's say I have set my variable before I ran this line and its stored in a variable called name. Would this code work?

Code:
awk '$2 ~/^0:/ && match( $6, "^" v ) && $7 ~/^2[48]/ && $8 ~/^00|^0F|^1F/ {print x;print;getline;print}; {x=$0}' v=$name input-file

or would I need something like this:
Code:
awk '$2 ~/^0:/ && match( $6, "^" v ) && $7 ~/^2[48]/ && $8 ~/^00|^0F|^1F/ {print x;print;getline;print}; {x=$0}' v=`echo $name` input-file

Or maybe neither one would work....what's your thought?
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Old 07-23-2012
Your first one; the echo is not necessary. Best to quote it though:

Code:
awk '$2 ~/^0:/ && match( $6, "^" v ) && $7 ~/^2[48]/ && $8 ~/^00|^0F|^1F/ {print x;print;getline;print}; {x=$0}' v="$name" input-file

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