Hi eveyrone, I'm tryin to build a script that will extract columns from a comma sepparated or x delimited file. This is what I have so far, but it doesn't work. I get the following error:
Naix:Bash Naix$ ./extractCol.sh , cutDemo.input 3 awk -F',' '{ print $3 }' < cutDemo.input awk: '{ awk: ^ invalid char ''' in expression #!/usr/bin/env bash DELIMETER="'$1'" FILE=$2 COLUMNS="'{ print \$$3 }'" echo "awk -F$DELIMETER $COLUMNS < $FILE" awk -F$DELIMETER $COLUMNS < $FILE Any help appreciated. Ted -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-script.-tp28598751p28598751.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.