Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!telmail!neabbs!richard From: richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: awk Message-ID: <218001@neabbs.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 23:46:14 GMT Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland Lines: 18 Help! I need to finish an AWK program yesterday, but can't get it to pass parameters. For example: awk 'BEGIN {print x}' x=foo should print 'foo' and start reading stdin, but it prints an empty line and terminates. I'm using AWK from XENIX /386 2.2.3. When I type 'awk' without any arguments, the usage line says nothing about parameters. Maybe it just isn't built in (yet)? I haven't got the Text Processing System so please tell me anything usefull you can find in that manual. T.i.a. for comments, Richard (...!hp4nl!neabbs!richard)