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Old 12-23-2010, 09:49 AM   #1
chogall
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Pass a shell variable to an AWK command


Hi!

I have the following code :

Code:
 
E_BADARGS=65

 if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
	echo "Wrong number of arguments"
	exit $E_BADARGS
 else

	for file in TputAbort$1$2.dat
	do

	awk '{sum+=$1}END{print "throughput parallel: "  sum/NR " op/s"}' $file
	awk '{sum+=$2}END{print "abort parallel: "  sum/NR " op/s"}' $file

	done
 fi

What I want to do is to use the arguments I pass to my shell script inside the AWK command. I would like to replace the string "parallel" by the first argument which would be $1. But of course, this $1 (the 1st argument) is not the same as the $1 I use in "sum+=$1" (which represents the first field in the file $file.

Anyone has an idea ?

Thanks in advance!
 
Old 12-23-2010, 10:12 AM   #2
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Check out '-v' option for awk.
 
  


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