Re: awk question

On Nov 26, 10:25 am, Ed Morton <mor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/26/2007 9:23 AM, rva...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



I want to assign a variable using awk:

set myvariable = `awk '{print $1}' cool`

how can extract the contents of cool and assign it to myvariable.

This doesn't work.

In what way?

I have done this before and I cannot remember how to do this

This is an OS question, not an awk question so you'd be better posting it to an
OS-specific NG (e.g. comp.unix.shell if the above is UNIX shell script).

Ed.


Thats false. I am trying to use awk and have a variable assigned.
.

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