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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk and shell question
Summary: It's a shell problem, not an awk problem.
Keywords: awk sh
Message-ID: <5372@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Sep 89 14:09:45 GMT
References: <1163@ispi.UUCP>
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In article <1163@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) wrote:
<LOGNAME=`who am i | awk '{
<	logname=$1
<	print logname
<	}'`
<
<a=" awk -F: '\$1 == \"$LOGNAME\" {
<	user=\$5;
<	print user
<	}'"
<USER=`cat /etc/passwd | $a`

USER=`cat /etc/passwd | eval $a`

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