[SunHELP] shell var & awk

awk '{ print '${YADDA}' }'.

The single ticks turn off shell interpolation. You can turn it back on by just
adding single ticks around any pieces of the command that you want the shell
to interpolate.

--Buddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Markham, Richard [mailto:RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:13 PM
To: Sunhelp (E-mail)
Subject: [SunHELP] shell var & awk


Can I reference a shell variable within an awk statement?

ie.   awk '{ print ${YADDA} }'
?
TIA
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