[Gllug] issues with awk

[dudes dudes]

hi Tet, 

I have tried your approach before,doesn't return anything !
I don't understand why the variable doesn't get passed to awk ! (takes it as an empty string) !

cheers
ak

> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> From: sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:06:42 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] issues with awk
> 
> 
> Alain Williams writes:
> 
> >$ip is in single quotes and so is not substituted by the shell.
> >The following might work (not tested):
> >
> >	awk --assign ip=$ip '$1==$ip {print}' test.txt
> 
> Or in the more general case, for commands that don't let you assign
> variables on the command line:
> 
> 	awk '$1=='"$ip"' {print}' test.txt
> 
> Tet
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