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Re: Awk shell variables inside make


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Awk shell variables inside make
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:41:15 -0400

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:35 +0200, Domingo A. Siliceo wrote:
> The problem I'm having is that the awk command doesn't interprets the 
> shell variables, thus I'm obtaining a placas_2.html only with the HTML
> tags. Should I write these shell variables diferently?

Those look to make like make variables, so make is expanding them before
it invokes your recipe.

You have to escape them by doubling them ("$$11" etc.)

See the section "Using Variables in Commands" in the GNU make manual.

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