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From: leiby@masscomp.UUCP (Mike Leibensperger)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: passing command line arguments to awk
Message-ID: <1118@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 17:29:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 17:29:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 07:45:39 EDT
References: <198@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <753@moscom.UUCP>
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Summary: How to do it using sh(1)...  ref. K&P

In article <753@moscom.UUCP> de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) quotes someone else:
>> 
>> I surrender  --  is it possible to pass command line arguments to awk?
>> 
>> If so - how.  While I'm at it how about doing the same thing to sed.

One way to do it is to put your awk command in a shell script, and play
with shell quoting to put the shell arguments where you want them.
This example,

	:
	awk '{ s += $'$1' }
	END { print s }'


from _The_UNIX_Programming_Environment_ by Kernighan and Pike, shows the
basic idea.
--
Rt. Rev. Mike Leibensperger, Archbishop of Chelmsford
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