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From: peter@doe.utoronto.ca (Peter Mielke)
Subject: Re: Awk with passed parameters
In-Reply-To: Art Neilson's message of 10 Mar 91 
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.174233.4037@doe.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Use shell quoting
Keywords: awk bsd shell
Reply-To: peter@doe.utoronto.ca (Peter Mielke)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 17:42:33 GMT


In <1991Mar10.033553.28978@pilikia.pegasus.com>, Art Neilson writes:
> In article <3022@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> ( Michael S Figg) writes:
> >I'm trying to write a short shell script using awk to list files in the
> >current directory that have todays' date on them. It seems like something
> >like this should work, but I haven't had any luck:
>
> Here's my solution using the Bourne shell and standard awk.
> 
> :
> 
> date="`date`"
> set $date
> 
> ls -l | awk '
> BEGIN {
> 	mm = '\"$2\"'

This should be written like this, as it will fail if $2="two or more words"

 	mm = "'"$2"'"

> 	dd = '\"$3\"' + 0

 	dd = '"$3"' + 0

> }
> 	$6 == mm && $7 == dd { print }
> '
> -- 
> Arthur W. Neilson III		| INET: art@pilikia.pegasus.com
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Peter Mielke                                    peter@doe.utoronto.ca
Dictionary of Old English Project               utgpu!utzoo!utdoe!peter
University of Toronto