awk using variable as pattern

[ibustin]

Hi everybody,

some help is needed before I crash my head. I try to run a ksh script including:

echo $(awk -v var=$MyVariable -F '#' '$2 ~ /var/ {print var, $2 } $MyFile)

what I get is:

/var/ is constant "var" and not content of $MyVariable
but what I print with var is content of $MyVariable

any suggestion?

[secondmouse]

Try replacing the awk line with

awk -v var=$MyVariable -F '#' '$2 ~ /var/ {print var, $2 } $MyFile

awk -v var=$MyVariable -F '#' '$2 ~ /'$MyVariable'/ {print var, $2 }' $MyFile

[ibustin]

It works. Thanks a lot for your help.