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hi Tet, <br><br>I have tried your approach before,doesn't return anything !<br>I don't understand why the variable doesn't get passed to awk ! (takes it as an empty string) !<br><br>cheers<br>ak<br><br><div>> To: gllug@gllug.org.uk<br>> From: sta296@astradyne.co.uk<br>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:06:42 +0100<br>> Subject: Re: [Gllug] issues with awk<br>> <br>> <br>> Alain Williams writes:<br>> <br>> >$ip is in single quotes and so is not substituted by the shell.<br>> >The following might work (not tested):<br>> ><br>> > awk --assign ip=$ip '$1==$ip {print}' test.txt<br>> <br>> Or in the more general case, for commands that don't let you assign<br>> variables on the command line:<br>> <br>> awk '$1=='"$ip"' {print}' test.txt<br>> <br>> Tet<br>> --<br>> Gllug mailing list - Gllug@gllug.org.uk<br>> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug<br></div> </div></body>
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