any way to access the matched groups in action? [duplicate]
问题 This question already has answers here : AWK: Access captured group from line pattern (6 answers) Closed 5 years ago . I often find myself doing the same match in the action as the pattern, to access some part of the input record, e.g. /^Compiled from \"(.*)\"$/ { file_name = gensub("^Compiled from \"(.*)\"$", "\\1", "g"); print file_name; } So the regexp matching is done twice. Is there any way I can access \\1 in the action without matching again? I am trying to both reduce on pattert