Question

because i haven’t found a solution on google or the searchfunction i will ask here.

Here is my code :

Send="last -n 1 $1 | awk '{ print $1 " " $2  }'"

My problem is, that my shell script is using parameters.

When i’m calling my script:

myScript hello world

Then my awk-Command looks like

awk '{ print hello " " world }'

But how could I avoid this? is there a way?

Because this is a part of a project, i couldn’t post more code. ;/

Answer 1

1. first change the outer “‘s to $() so: send=$(last -n 1 $1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}')

2. use the FS (field separator) variable which defaults to space in awk instead of ” ” for a space so: send=$(last -n 1 $1 | awk '{print $1 FS $2}')