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Shell Script with AWK

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I am working with Shell Script in awk and i need to use an external variable inside awk chain as follows: PhysMem=´prtconf | grep Memory | awk ' {print $3}'´ MEM=´tail -1 /tmp/.sar | awk ' $2 = int(100-($2 * 100 / $PhysMem)) {print $2}'´ How can i do it? Charlyrosario

Name: ghostdog
Date: June 21, 2007 at 13:36:59 Pacific

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awk -v var=$PhysMem '{ print var }'

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Name: nails
Date: June 22, 2007 at 09:28:17 Pacific

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There is more than one way to use shell variables in awk. Check out this link: http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fi...

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Thanks a lot to both nails and ghostdog Charlyrosario

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