Howto Pass A String as Parameter in AWK within Bash Script

Question

I have a text file which I want to filter using awk. The text file looks like this:

foo 1
bar 2
bar 0.3
bar 100
qux 1033

I want to filter those files with awk inside a bash script.

#!/bin/bash

#input file
input=myfile.txt

# I need to pass this as parameter
# cos later I want to make it more general like
# coltype=$1
col1type="foo"   

#Filters
awk '$2>0 && $1==$col1type' $input

But somehow it failed. What's the right way to do it?

Answer 1

pass it in using -v option of awk. that way, you separate out awk variables and shell variables. Its neater also without extra quoting.

#!/bin/bash

#input file
input=myfile.txt

# I need to pass this as parameter
# cos later I want to make it more general like
# coltype=$1
col1type="foo"   

#Filters
awk -vcoltype="$col1type" '$2>0 && $1==col1type' $input

Answer 2

"double quote single quote"

awk '{print "'$1'"}'

example:

$./a.sh arg1 
arg1

$cat a.sh 
echo "test" | awk '{print "'$1'"}'

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