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From: jaff@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: awk & variables
Keywords: awk variables
Message-ID: <23206@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 25 May 89 16:38:44 GMT
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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Awk seems to be lacking something, but maybe it's really there.  I want to
match a pattern that I don't know until I execute the script, so I want to
pass in a pattern to match in a variable.  I can't get this to work!  Here's
what I'm doing, on a Sun:
 .
 .
SYSVER=`awk '{print $3}' < /etc/motd`
 .
awk ' $0 ~ $SYSVER { print substr($0, 3, length - 2) } ' < cs35if.h > cs35.if 
 . 
(in a shell script)

Any suggestions?
Mark Jaffe
Transitional Technology, Inc.		| jaff@dhw68k
Orange, CA	
(714) 744-1030