I have following problem! If i trie to execute this command:

nawk '{system("/opt/EMCpower/bin/emcpadm renamepseudo -f d -s "$1" -t "$2")}' ${filestart}$1${fileend}

where ${filestart}$1${fileend} is a filename and $1 and $2 is the first and second column of the file! I get the following error message if i execute it in my script:

nawk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
{system("/opt/EMCpower/bin/emcpadm renamepseudo -f d -s "$1" -t >>> "$2")} <<<
nawk: illegal statement at source line 1
missing }
missing )

can someone help me?

You have unbalanced quotes, try:

thanks -> this works!

nawk '{system("/opt/EMCpower/bin/emcpadm renamepseudo -f d -s "$1" -t "$2)}' ...

if i want to check if $1 and $2 starts with the letters emcpower and just want to execute the command if it is so - how can i fulfil this?

Regards

the command makes problems -> it says: ssh: syntax error at line 1: `emcpower/{system' unexpected

ssh remotemaschine nawk '$1 ~ /^emcpower/ && $2 ~ /^emcpower/{system("...")}' file

any other ideas?

ok - the problem is that i have to copy my file to the remote destination!

how can i execute the following command on my remote host?

this command is correct:

nawk '{system("/opt/EMCpower/bin/emcpadm renamepseudo -f d -s "$1" -t "$2)}' filename

but how can i do this remote? my problem is that after ssh $1 I can´t make "(....)" because there are " in my command! so any ideas?

scp ${filestart}$1${fileend} $1:${destdir}
ssh $1 (cd ${destdir} && nawk '{system("/opt/EMCpower/bin/emcpadm renamepseudo -f d -s "$1" -t "$2)}' ${filestart}$1${fileend} && rm ${filestart}$1${fileend})

the solution is to give the nawk command in a file, copy this file to the remote server and execute it there!