GAH! Bash script insanity

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Joshua Pollak <pardsbane at offthehill.org> writes:

> Ok, I'm going crazy. I don't know how the script-kiddies deal with bash.
>
> So the advice I got from the list re: my awk problem was great, and
> I'm trying to implement it. Here is what I want to run:
>
> sed -e s/#.*// ${CONFIG_FILE} | awk -F"=" '/${PARAMETER}/ { print $2 }'

Try this:

  sed -e 's/#.*//' ${CONFIG_FILE} | awk -F"=" "/${PARAMETER}/ \{ print \$2 \}"

I'm not 100% sure if you need to quote the braces at the end.

-derek

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