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07-06-2009

insania

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HPUX to Linux awk conversion

I have the following script to edit ^'s and newlines out of files to be entered into a database. This script has been around since the dawn of time (way before me).

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Remove all ^ and \n from the source file, except do not remove ^^^\n
 cat myfile.hold  | awk '
 BEGIN {FS="|"; OFS="|"; OUTPUT=""}
 {
  gsub("\^$","",$0);
  gsub("\^\^$","^",$0);
  OUTPUT=OUTPUT $0;
  if (match(OUTPUT, "\^$"))
  {
   printf ("%s\n", OUTPUT);
   OUTPUT="";
  }
 } ' - > UNIQUENAME.out
 mv UNIQUENAME.out /testing/name.out

The probelm is when the script is moved from HPUX where it works great to Linux it gives the following error:

Code:

awk: cmd. line:4: warning: escape sequence `\^' treated as plain `^'

I dont know enough about awk and have attempted to research it and but i am having no luck.

Thanks,

Sean

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