tanzyy · April 13, 2017 00:40
diff --git a/awk_pass_shell_variable.sh b/awk_pass_shell_variable.sh
 #!/bin/bash

 #This script shows how to pass shell variable to awk using option -v

 index_pos="4"
 search_string="31/Mar/2017:03:58:38"
 cat ~/Desktop/tempp.txt | awk -v pos=$index_pos -v ss=$search_string '{ if($pos==ss) print $0 }'
	#!/bin/bash

	#This script shows how to pass shell variable to awk using option -v

	index_pos="4"
	search_string="31/Mar/2017:03:58:38"
	cat ~/Desktop/tempp.txt \| awk -v pos=$index_pos -v ss=$search_string '{ if($pos==ss) print $0 }'