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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:28:54 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] parameter passing
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i have no idea what you're trying to do, but i don't
see how what you wrote is different from

awk '$3=='^$1^' {print $2}' clade

or

awk -v 's='^$1 '$3==s {print $2}' clade

the latter works even when $1 is a string
instead of a number.

russ


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:09:49 +0100, cej@gli.cas.cz <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:
> hello,
> is there a better way to pass
> commandline argument(s) than this is:
> #!/bin/rc
> echo  awk '''$3=='$1'{print $2}'''   clade  | rc
> #-eof-
> 
> thanks,
> ++pac.
> 
>