[PLUG] awk script

[Michael Montagne]

>On 26/09/02, from the brain of mikeraz at patch.com tumbled:

> Ooops, see correction.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:11:32PM -0700, mikeraz at patch.com typed:
> > You might try:
> > 
> > 
> >   #!/bin/bash
> >   NAME=$1
> >   # some error checking to be sure a name was passed in...
> >   /bin/awk "BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1}; ($15 ~/$NAME/) {print $1 $2 " " $3 " " $12}" /var/log/mail.log
> 
>     /bin/awk "BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1}; (\$15 ~/$NAME/) {print \$1 \$2 " " \$3 " " \$12}" /var/log/mail.log
> 
> > 
> > Note, the double quote for the AWK program,  single quotes won't allow the $NAME to be expanded


Thanks guys, this is what I ended up with:
Pretty cool I think.

#!/bin/bash

#variable definitions
username=$1

awk "BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1}; (\$15 ~/$username/) {print \$1 \$2 \" \"  \$3 \" \" \$12}" mail.log>$username.txt

#End Script

Don's worked too once I escaped all the $s.  You guys are a great
resource.  Now I'm off to show off my new tool
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