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Using Shell Variables with AWK

June 21st, 2008 No comments

Pattern matching example:

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

To use shell variables simply do the following:

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foo1={pattern1}
foo2={pattern2}
 
awk "/$foo1/ && /$foo2/"'{ print $1 }'