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# 8  
Old 04-22-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerben
am using csh
well, my condolences Smilie
you can adopt the ksh/bash approach to csh as well...
# 9  
Old 04-22-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
it's not a matterof the shell version. It's a matter of using double-quotes when doing var assignment and (more importantly) when echo-ing the variable value.
See my initial response with colored double-quotes.
I asked about the bash version because rogerben said he got an error, which doesn't happen to me with the same code
To assign the value to a variable I use the backtick and it works. Taking up your code
Code:
a=`awk '$2=="jij" {print $3}' testfile`
echo "$a"

Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Also there's no need to use cat - awk is quite happy with reading the supplied file to read.
I know, I just replaced the grep of the rogerben code with cat
# 10  
Old 04-23-2020
am trying the below command but getting illegal variable in csh.
Code:
set a="$(awk -v v2s="${uid}" '$2==v2s {print $3}' testfile)"  -- where uid is the value of the user
echo "$a"

--- Post updated at 11:48 AM ---

if i replaced with other special characters its working fine only its not retrieving the value if there is a "*" in between the word.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment
Please use proper CODE syntax for code portions.
Thanks!
Last edited by Peasant; 04-23-2020 at 09:42 AM..
# 11  
Old 04-23-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerben
am trying the below command but getting illegal variable in csh.
Code:
set a="$(awk -v v2s="${uid}" '$2==v2s {print $3}' testfile)"  -- where uid is the value of the user
echo "$a"

--- Post updated at 11:48 AM ---

if i replaced with other special characters its working fine only its not retrieving the value if there is a "*" in between the word.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment
Please use proper CODE syntax for code portions.
Thanks!
I don't know what "other special characters" means and I am not csh-savvy, but the following seem to work

Code:
#!/bin/csh

set uid = 'jij'
set a = `awk -v v2s="${uid}" '$2==v2s {print $3}' testfile`
echo "a->$a"
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