Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> wrote:

> $ for (( i=1;i<=3;i++ )); do gawk -v var=$i 'NR == var { print}' input ; done
>
> You're asking awk to read lines from a file, so you need to give the
> file over to awk.  The above gives you the output you're looking for.
> The bash portion of your script (the loop) and the -v var portion of
> your awk command are fine.

Thanks, Chris. you've clear the dirty dust in my eyes. :)

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Marco