Re: OT: help with mawk

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

Hi ghcbc,

VARIABLENAME=$(mawk 'whatever') .

BTW: Your syntax seems strange to me. AFAIK it should be something like
mawk '/pattern/ {action}'
(see man mawk).

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:19:27PM -0800, ghcbc@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a shell script to process a dir tree looking for
> specific types of files, and creating a symbolic name of the found files by
> stripping the "/" chars from the path.
> 
> Anyone know if I can get the output of 
> 
> 	mawk 'gsub("/","",$pathname) {print}'
> 
> into another variable or even back into $pathname ?
> 
> GC
> 

HTH
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