sed in awk ? or nested awk ?

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Sure, but I was refering to the issues using single quotes in a nested awk. Back to your awk command, I see no issues using it as is. From the command line the output is correct:

cat temp.txt

mqsiaaa 123 888
mqsiddd 456 999
t2589gg 789 555

and


awk '$2~/456/ { printf $3 > "filefilter"}' temp.txt

   #The expected output is correct:

cat filefilter
999

Same can be said if you use a variable:

var=`awk '$2~/456/ { printf $3 }' temp.txt`
echo $var
999