Hi,

I'm trying to use AWK to find a line in a file equal to 2 different variables and write it to another variable. I can find the values individually but I can't work out how to put them together. Here are the lines:

e=`awk '/ALMHT?/' $DIRLOG$CFILE`
f=`awk '$2 == "Active"' $DIRLOG$CFILE`

Thanks

Here is one way of doing it. This works
on Tru64 UNIX 5.1B but should work on
most other Unices.

- Pass in the variables using the
-v command line option i.e.

awk -v var1=$DIRLOG -v var2=$CFILE ...

Some versions of awk do not have a
-v option and instead will just accept

awk var1=$DIRLOG var2=$CFILE ...

Look at the manpage for your particular
verion of awk/nawk/gawk.

- Output lines that match using syntax
similar to following:

$0 ~ var1 && $0 ~ var2 {print $0}

Good luck

- Finnbarr