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From: SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: awk vs echo
Message-ID: <9102111145.aa01900@VGR.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Feb 91 16:23:04 GMT
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Organization: Computing Services, University of Guelph, Ont. Can. N1G 2W1
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I guess that even after a year of trying, I do not understand the way
the shell (csh) passes things to it's children, viz:

This is an excerpt from a longer awk command, and I'm stuck:

This works
           awk '{ print "'$user': " $0}'
as does
           awk '{ print "'`hostname`': " $0}'
But not
           awk '{ print "'`date`': " $0}'     (Spaces(?) Colons(?))
Even tho
          echo '{ print "'`date`': " $0}'     works OK, and if I CUT&PASTE
the result of the echo into another awk '', something like:

           awk '{ print "Mon Feb 11 11:35:32 EST 1991: " $0}'    IT WORKS!

Why are the last and 2nd-last awks different?  Anyone please?

 /PJ                                                SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca
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