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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Import variables in to awk.
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Date: 16 Nov 89 01:01:26 GMT
References: <10531@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In-reply-to: warner@unc.cs.unc.edu (Byron Warner)

In article <10531@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, warner@unc (Byron Warner) writes:
| My questions is how do you import csh variables into an awk script.
| for example if I have a file called foo, which contains:
| {
| 	print import,$0
| }
| 
| and I issue the command 
| awk -F: -f foo /etc/passwd import='hello
                                          ^ missing quote,  perhaps?
| why do I get just a list of logins?

The order of command-line options is significant:

% awk -F: -f foo import='hello' /etc/passwd

yields the result you want.  Also note that these variables are not
available in the "BEGIN" action (unless something happened after the
V7 version of awk).

Just another UNIX old-timer,
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