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Passing a variable to awk/gawk
#!/bin/sh #Section: 04 #Name: Scott Deese my_awk="awk -v var=$1 ' /$var/ { print \$2 } ' " echo $my_awk schemas=`$my_awk database.txt` ive tried this many different ways and this was the last way describe by my teacher that doesnt work. I need to pass a variable from the sh shell to awk. the...
