[Gllug] issues with awk

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:32:00AM +0100, dudes dudes wrote:

> However; if I script this in bash such as:
> 
> ip="127.0.0.1"
> 
> awk '$1==$ip {print}' test.txt
> 
> I never get the right results. 

$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

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