Shell/gawk interaction

[Darin McGrew]

rfinch at caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
>I do not understand why the following bourne shell script generates an
>error in the awk program:

The whitespace in $args is not being quoted, which causes the
gawk program argument to be broken up into several arguments.
The following should work better--

	#!/bin/sh
	filename=$1 ; shift
	nargs=$#  
	args="$*"
	echo $args

	gawk '
	BEGIN {
	args="'"$args"'"
	print args
	exit 
	}' $filename

Darin McGrew			mcgrew at Eng.Sun.COM
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