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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk question
Message-ID: <583@ssc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 17:18:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc.583
Posted: Fri Jul  3 17:18:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 19:51:21 EDT
References: <718@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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Summary: disgusting way I did it but it worked

In article <718@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP>, kraml@trwrb.UUCP (Robert P. Kraml) writes:
> I have a question concerning the awk utility.  Does anyone know if
> there is a way to pass awk variables out as shell variables on a 
> line-by-line basis.  

I am now prowd of this and hope someone comes up with a clean way but
I had a similar problem (passing stuff back to a calling shell script).
The child wrote a file consisting of setenv commands with the appropriate
data.  When control was returned to the parent, it did a source of the
file.  (Ok, I'm embarassed but it did what I needed.)

You could use the same method writing the file with awk.

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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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