AWK question

DUSTY ddaly%xls-plexus01.amc at AMC-HQ.ARPA
Tue Aug 6 01:50:33 AEST 1985


Does anyone know if and how I can get awk to do a >= (less than or equal)
on a value entered from a terminal by the user?
E.G.
echo 'enter date in format yy-mm-dd \c $dt'
read  dt
echo $dt
awk '$5  >= $dt ' .suspfile >xout

awk seems to ignore the terminal entered data. Is there any way to get
awk to recognize this kind of variable?

ed daly
ddaly at amc-hq



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