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From: Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
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Subject: Re: HOW2 pass args to awk?
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 07:55:36 -0400
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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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