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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: using /bin/sh vars in awk
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Date: 29 Apr 91 12:27:14 GMT
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In article <MAKI.91Apr29205859@void.jit.dec.com>, maki@void.jit.dec.com (Watanabe Maki) writes:
|> 	If your awk is nawk(New Awk), it's easy.
|> 	
|> 	... | nawk '{if ($1 == fred) command}' fred="barney"

  Actually, this syntax will work with nearly any version of awk, not just
nawk.  It was available, albeit undocumented, in even the earliest distributed
versions.

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