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Jun 08

Using Shell Variables with AWK

Pattern matching example:

awk '/foo1/ && /foo2/ { print $1 }'  

To use shell variables simply do the following:

foo1={pattern1}
foo2={pattern2}

awk "/$foo1/ && /$foo2/"'{ print $1 }'  

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