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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: A question on [a,ga,na]wk.
Message-ID: <14@garth.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 01:53:59 GMT
References: <BT00.90Nov28155200@PL118d.?>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Distribution: comp.unix.shell
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <BT00.90Nov28155200@PL118d.?> bt00@PL118d.? (Binod K. Taterway) writes:
>Is it possible to make use of c-shell variables in [g,n]awk scripts.

I often do it like...

#!/bin/ksh
Tempfile="c4sim.tmp$$"
...
nawk '
    ...
    print ... >$Tempfile
    ...
    ' "Tempfile=$Tempfile" "Version=$Version" $*

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