[PLUG] bash and awk strangeness

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Daniel Herrington wrote:

>      host=$(awk '{ print "wtf:" $m }')

Daniel,

   Your awk statement begins by printing the string, wtf: and that is why you
see that in the output.

   As Paul wrote, show us the input file and we can examine the output
relative to it.

Regards,

Rich