Writing an awk script that reads variable from cmmand line
I am trying to write an awk script that can read a users input from command line and store it as a variable.
I know that if I compile from command line and do
./myawk.awk -v ID=4 text.sql
ID will be a variable set to 4. However, the input test cases I am given for my script are just
./myawk.awk ID=4 text.sql
The final goal of the script is to take an ID, find any line that begins with
-- ID
and print the following line. What I have so far is
#!/bin/awk -f
{
if ($1 ~/--/ && $2 ~/^ID/){
x = NR+1
}
while (NR <= x){
print $0
}
}
Can someone explain to me how I am able to read the variable ID without altering the line and adding -v before it, as well maybe give me advice on my current awk script.
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I am trying to write an awk script that can read a users input from command line and store it as a variable.
I know that if I compile from command line and do
./myawk.awk -v ID=4 text.sql
ID will be a variable set to 4. However, the input test cases I am given for my script are just
./myawk.awk ID=4 text.sql
The final goal of the script is to take an ID, find any line that begins with
-- ID
and print the following line. What I have so far is
#!/bin/awk -f
{
if ($1 ~/--/ && $2 ~/^ID/){
x = NR+1
}
while (NR <= x){
print $0
}
}
Can someone explain to me how I am able to read the variable ID without altering the line and adding -v before it, as well maybe give me advice on my current awk script.
awk command-line regular-expression variable arguments
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I am trying to write an awk script that can read a users input from command line and store it as a variable.
I know that if I compile from command line and do
./myawk.awk -v ID=4 text.sql
ID will be a variable set to 4. However, the input test cases I am given for my script are just
./myawk.awk ID=4 text.sql
The final goal of the script is to take an ID, find any line that begins with
-- ID
and print the following line. What I have so far is
#!/bin/awk -f
{
if ($1 ~/--/ && $2 ~/^ID/){
x = NR+1
}
while (NR <= x){
print $0
}
}
Can someone explain to me how I am able to read the variable ID without altering the line and adding -v before it, as well maybe give me advice on my current awk script.
awk command-line regular-expression variable arguments
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I am trying to write an awk script that can read a users input from command line and store it as a variable.
I know that if I compile from command line and do
./myawk.awk -v ID=4 text.sql
ID will be a variable set to 4. However, the input test cases I am given for my script are just
./myawk.awk ID=4 text.sql
The final goal of the script is to take an ID, find any line that begins with
-- ID
and print the following line. What I have so far is
#!/bin/awk -f
{
if ($1 ~/--/ && $2 ~/^ID/){
x = NR+1
}
while (NR <= x){
print $0
}
}
Can someone explain to me how I am able to read the variable ID without altering the line and adding -v before it, as well maybe give me advice on my current awk script.
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