Shell variable in AWK

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Name: dk0871
Date: December 23, 2004 at 13:45:58 Pacific
Subject: Shell variable in AWK
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I need some help of how to use shell variable in awk '{action}' section? Tried several way doesn't seem to be get it right.
Thanks in advance.

dkr

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Response Number 1

Name: Borvix
Date: December 24, 2004 at 08:41:33 Pacific
Subject: Shell variable in AWK

Reply: (edit)

It is subject to whole lesson ”how”, but I think you may find this link to be useful.
http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html

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Response Number 2

Name: nails
Date: December 29, 2004 at 07:53:10 Pacific
Subject: Shell variable in AWK

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I prefer to pass shell variables to an awk script, but this little stub embedds one:

VAR=5
echo "test" |awk '{ print "'"$VAR"'" }'
Regards,
Nails

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