AWK - Re: question on awk (FU2 set, comp.lang.awk posted)

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Re: question on awk (FU2 set, comp.lang.awk posted)

Bill Marcum

2008-01-04, 6:58 pm

On 2008-01-04, loki harfagr <loki@theDarkDesign.free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Well, the real answer depends much on the rest of what you
> expect to do overall, but just supposing you really want to
> fill a variable with previous problem description, it's
> possible to do for instance:
>
> $ woooop=$(awk '$NF=="RUNNING"{print $1}' FS=- yourfile)
>
> or backticks instead of bashism:
> $ woooop=`awk '$NF=="RUNNING"{print $1}' FS=- yourfile`
>
'$( )' isn't a bashism, it's a POSIXism.

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