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From: drew@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: HELP!! in passing shell variables t
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Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 14:02:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 14:02:00 1986
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     Parameters are passed to awk outside the awk code. 
 Inside the awk code $2 is the second field of the record, not the second
 argument to your shell script. Try the following:

		awk '{ awk code here }' awkvar1=$1 awkvar2=$2