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awk & shell variables containing blanks
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| Hi,
Currently I am experiencing a small issue with awk search patterns & korn
shell variables.
I simplified my problem to the following example (which will explain itself
I suppose) :
$ x="a b"
$ awk '/'$x'/' <file>
awk: line 1: runaway regular expression /a ...
Can anyone tell me how to get around it? Probably a small thing, but I
can't seem to find the answer ...
Thanks!
Mark
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| On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Bob Harris wrote:
> In article <478fe20b$0$70962$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl>,
> "Mark" <huijstee@hotmail.com> wrote:
> awk -v re="$x" '$0 ~ re { do something }' file
> If you are using Sun, then look for nawk on your system, or get
> gawk and install it.
Some people cannot just install things where ever whenever they please.
So there is also /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
Unless your Solaris OS version dates WAY back.
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