Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site turtlevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!cae780!weitek!turtlevax!ken From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AWK question Message-ID: <855@turtlevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:10:32 EDT Article-I.D.: turtleva.855 Posted: Wed Aug 7 13:10:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 03:55:25 EDT References: <435@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) Organization: CADLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA Lines: 16 In article <435@brl-tgr.ARPA> ddaly%xls-plexus01.amc@AMC-HQ.ARPA (DUSTY) writes: >Does anyone know if and how I can get awk to do a >= (less than or equal) >on a value entered from a terminal by the user? >E.G. >echo 'enter date in format yy-mm-dd \c $dt' >read dt >echo $dt >awk '$5 >= $dt ' .suspfile >xout Have you tried using double quotes instead of single quotes? Try: awk "$5 >= $dt " .suspfile >xout -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,hplabs,nsc,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPA