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awk_pass_shell_variable.sh
#!/bin/bash
#This script shows how to pass shell variable to awk using option -v
index_pos="4"
search_string="31/Mar/2017:03:58:38"
cat ~/Desktop/tempp.txt | awk -v pos=$index_pos -v ss=$search_string '{ if($pos==ss) print $0 }'
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