Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!yendor!stefan
From: stefan@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com (Stefan Loesch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk & variables
Keywords: awk variables
Message-ID: <10980@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 31 May 89 22:30:07 GMT
References: <23206@dhw68k.cts.com>
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Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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In article <23206@dhw68k.cts.com> jaff@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Jaffe) writes:
>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

I ran into this problem before (years ago). At that time I was firm in the
shell AND in awk :-), and played arround a couple of days. As far as I
remember, the only way I found, was writing the (shell)-variable value to 
a file, and reading it from awk. 
If I could only find that old script ....

Hope that helps
Stefan