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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: passing command line arguments to awk
Message-ID: <731@scc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 21:38:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 20 21:38:58 1986
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Organization: Don Steiny Software
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Summary: Sure I do it all the time, like this.

In article <753@moscom.UUCP>, de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) writes:
> > 
> > I surrender  --  is it possible to pass command line arguments to awk?
> > If so - how.  

	awk ' statement ; . . . ' file

be sure and use single quotes!   Lots of awk characters have
special meaning to the shell.  The following prints the uids in
the password file from highest to lowest:

	awk -F: '{ print $3 }' | sort -n -r


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