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Re: bourne shell query

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From: Scott Yelich
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 16:49
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>:>files=`ls -rt * |grep -v '.*[a-zA-Z].*' | awk $1 '>=' $zots {print}`
>I see a quoting problem here     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>files=`ls -rt * |grep -v '[a-zA-Z]' | awk "\$1 >= $zots {print}"`
>To explain:
> The only real change was to change thw quoting around the awk script.
>$1 was getting expanded to the shell's $1, not the 1st awk field.
>   By using " as a quoting character, the shell is able to expand $zot
>to whatever number it represents.  The \$1 is to prevent the shell
>from trying to expand $1 to the shell's $1, rather than the 1st awk
>field.

I still see a quoting problem here...
At least, when I try this-- it doesn't work.

I have only been able to get awk to work properly if I use
single quotes and not double quotes.

As a side question, does ANYONE have any bourne shell routines which do
math... reasonably effeciently?  (For numbers > 1000?)
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From: scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich)
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Subject: Re: bourne shell query
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