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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
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 13:10:32 1985
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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
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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