Re: HOW2 pass args to awk?

From	Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.lang.awk
Subject	Re: HOW2 pass args to awk?
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2011-05-17 07:55 -0400
Organization	Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment
Message-ID	<slrnit4oho.5u2.bill@lat.localnet> (permalink)
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On 2011-05-17, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had suspected that ARGV could do it.
> But it fails.  Are you fooling with me?
>    gawk '
>        BEGIN {
>            arg1 = ARGV[1]
>            arg2 = ARGV[2]
> print "arg1=" arg1  <--- 'arg1' is 'empty'/uninitialised
> }'
>
> exit
> /arg1/&&/arg2/{print FILENAME ":" $0}'\
>  `find /mnt/p11/PhysicalSpace/DirTest  -type f`
>
In the above script, the gawk command ends at  }' . It has no 
arguments. "exit" is interpreted as a shell command, and the lines 
after it are ignored.


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Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-05-17 06:27 +0000
  Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-17 09:12 +0200
    Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-05-17 00:21 -0700
      Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? Harold Stevens <wookie@jimbo.localdomain> - 2011-05-17 09:17 -0500
      Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-17 17:36 +0200
    Re (2): HOW2 pass args to awk? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-05-29 15:56 +0000
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 pass args to awk? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-29 13:05 -0400
        Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-05-30 02:22 +0000
          Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-30 05:09 +0200
  Re: HOW2 pass args to awk? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-17 07:55 -0400
    Re (2): HOW2 pass args to awk? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-05-29 15:56 +0000
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 pass args to awk? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-05-29 17:46 +0000
        Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-05-30 02:22 +0000
          Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-05-30 09:01 +0000
          Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-05-31 11:05 +0000
            Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2011-05-31 14:35 +0200
              Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 07:56 -0500
              Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-05-31 14:14 +0000
                Re: Re (3): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2011-06-01 10:41 +0200
              Re (4): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-06-06 10:26 +0000
                Re: Re (4): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-06-06 14:01 +0000
            Re (4): HOW2 pass args to awk? and more no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-06-06 04:58 +0000

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