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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: passing command line arguments to awk
Message-ID: <732@scc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 00:16:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 00:16:42 1986
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In article <482@ms3.UUCP>, msitd22@ms3.UUCP (Jim Chappell) writes:
> In article <731@scc.UUCP>, steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
> > 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
> 
> I bet it sits there forever more because of missing input,
> 
	Right! . . . and then I go . . . "oops" and type

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

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