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Hi, I have a ksh which uses seperated awk programs inside. Can i define a variable in the ksh and then using awk to refer to it? eg under ksh i have abc=count+120 so in the awk part which is written as part of the ksh, can i use it ? eg array[1]=abc Thanks

Name: nails
Date: July 25, 2005 at 07:17:13 Pacific

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This link discusses using shell variables in awk: http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=1281

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Name: Luke Chi
Date: August 12, 2005 at 18:07:33 Pacific

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VAR="the value of VAR" echo dummy | nawk -v VAR_IN_AWK="$VAR" '{print VAR_IN_AWK}' Luke Chi

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