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