awk

Abid Malik · 10-15-2010, 01:04 PM

Hello Everyone!

here is a statement of shell script

awk '// { num=$6 }' file.txt
echo $num

so in the above statement i actually want to copy the six'th column of file.txt into a variable num. but it's not copying the value in num.

druisgod · 10-15-2010, 01:18 PM

I'm not sure what you are doing with the awk statement with the slashes and such, but I would do it like this:

num=`awk '{print $6}' file.txt`

echo $num

That says "The variable num is equal to the result of this command: awk . . ."