Re: [TCLUG:10162] awk syntax help needed

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:10162] awk syntax help needed
From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:50:39 -0800

>	As it is, I think you're missing "'s around the argument to the
>system command.  I'm guessing that your command should look like this:
>system("cp /from/this/dir/" + $1 + ".ext /home/here/")
        I thought I had tried that; but with single quotes. <shrug>
        turns out the command I wanted was:
system("cp /from/this/dir/"$1".ext /home/here/")

thanks a bunch!
Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator	307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA		Buffalo, MN	
carls@agritech.com	(612) 682-1091

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