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From: bazavan@hpcesea.HP (Valentin Bazavan)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: HELP!! in passing shell variables to awk
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 16:17:34 EST
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"col2" is a string. Try

		if ($1=="'"$col2"'")
It should work.

Valentin Bazavan
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