I'm trying to use awk to pull some different fields from a string.Example:selected=a2.flac|a3.flac|a4.flacfirst_file=$(echo $selected | awk -F'|' '{print $1}')The above code returns a2.flac which is what I expected.  But now, I want to iterate over a variable and pull each file out one at a time.  So I tried this:i=1first_file=$(echo $selected | awk -F'|' '{print $i}')I thought this would pull out the first file ... but nothing returns.so I tried this next:i=1first_file=$(echo $selected | awk -F'|' '{print \$i}')This also did not work. I also tried this method:i=1first_file=$(echo $selected | awk -F'|' n=$i '{print $n}')And also tried this:i=1first_file=$(echo $selected | awk -v -F'|' n=$i '{print $n}')Nothing I've tried seems to work.  I'm at a loss on what will work.
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you almost make iti=1first_file=$(echo $selected | awk -v n=$i -F'|'  '{print $n}')variable are set using -v name=value