I bet awk has it's own user list but before I go and subscribe to another one, I figured I would ask here first. I have the following awk code that is trying to set a variable of the shell it is running in. It doesn't work and I've searched high and low to see how to get it to do so. The reason I don't just use DOMAIN= 'awk blah blah blah' is I want to set more than one shell variable for each record. But I have to get this working first. :( #!/bin/bash awk '{FS=":"}{system ("DOMAIN=" $1); } {system ("DOMAIN="$1)}; {system ("echo \"$DOMAIN\"")}; ' /etc/passwd Any help would be appreciated. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.