Assign Awk Result to Variable

Assign AWK result to variable

The following works correctly on bash:

 a=$(echo '111 222 33' | awk '{print $3;}' )
 echo $a # result is "33"

Another option would be to convert the string to an array:

 a="111 222 333"
 b=($a)

 echo ${b[2]}  # returns 333

How to assign awk result to an variable

You need to avoid spaces around the equal symbol. Since backticks are deprecated, you could put your code inside $(..) block.

variable=$(awk -F: '$1=="{root}" {print $3}' /etc/passwd)

How to assign awk result variable to an array and is it possible to use awk inside another awk in loop

This may be what you're trying to do (using gawk for FPAT as you already were doing) but without more representative sample input and the expected output it's a guess:

$ cat tst.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

awk '
BEGIN {
    OFS = ","
    FPAT = "[^"OFS"]*|\"[^\"]*\""
}
NR > 1 {
    n = split($5,name,/\s*/)
    $7 = tolower(substr(name[1],1,1) name[n]) "@example.com"
    print
}
' "${@:--}"

$ ./tst.sh test.csv
1,1,,,Name surname,department1 department2 department3,nsurname@example.com,
2,1,,,name Surname,department1,nsurname@example.com,
3,2,,,Name Surname,"department1 department2, department3",nsurname@example.com,

I put the awk script inside a shell script since that looks like what you want, obviously you don't need to do that you could just save the awk script in a file and invoke it with awk -f.

Assign awk output to variable

You should use command substitution like follows:

#!/bin/sh 

KEY="title"

statu=$(curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 | awk -F'[,:}]' 
'{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/'$KEY'\042/){print $(i+1)}}}'  | tr -d '"')

echo "This is status" "$statu"

Saving awk output to variable

#!/bin/bash

variable=`ps -ef | grep "port 10 -" | grep -v "grep port 10 -" | awk '{printf $12}'`
echo $variable

Notice that there's no space after the equal sign.

You can also use $() which allows nesting and is readable.

Assigning output from awk to variable

Use command substitution to assign the output of a command to a variable.

The syntax is: var1=$(command).

result=$(awk 'BEGIN{s=100} END {print s}' /dev/null)
echo "The result is $result"

Assign awk output to awk variable

You can try using getline into a variable ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Getline_002fVariable_002fPipe )

("/production/bin/title_case.awk "old_name) | getline new_name

How to pass AWK output into variable?

Use command substitution to capture the output of a process.

#!/bin/sh

VAR="$(awk 'BEGIN{RS=ORS="\n\n";FS=OFS="\n"}/FileHeader/' /root/Desktop/logs/Default.log)"
echo "$VAR"

some general advice with regards to shell scripting:

• (almost) always quote every variable reference.
• never put spaces around the equals sign in variable assignment.

UNIX for loop using awk to assign a variable

$ awk '{print $1, "and", $2}' file
xyz and 123
abc and 456
pqr and 789

$ sed 's/ / and /' file
xyz and 123
abc and 456
pqr and 789

If that's not all you want then edit your question to clarify your requirements and provide a more truly representative example.

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