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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting can I pass awk variable to system command? Post 302078774 by zhynxn on Tuesday 4th of July 2006 12:29:59 PM
Old 07-04-2006
can I pass awk variable to system command?

I wanna use a system function to deal with several data. So I use awk variable FILENAME to transfer the file directory to system command, but it does not work.

I use a shell function "out_function" to deal with data and save the result in another directory with the same file name.
How can I do it?
My code is as follows:
#try.awk

{system("./out_function FILENAME > ./dst/FILENAME")
print FILENAME
nextfile
}

I use command ---awk -f try.awk ./src/* --- to open data files. I found that system("
command") could not recongnize FILENAME, so it could not run correctly. How
ever, my test command--print FILENAME-- runs correctly.
How should I do to solve this problem? Thanks a lot.
 

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gnunet-rsa [options]FILENAME DESCRIPTION
gnunet-rsa can be used to create an RSA private key and to print the corresponding public key. You must specify a filename containing an RSA private key in GNUnet format as an argument. If the file does not exist, gnunet-rsa will create a key. This may then take a while. If the option -p is given, the corresponding public key will be printed to the console. OPTIONS
-p, --print-public-key Print the corresponding public key to stdout. -P, --print-peer-identity Print the corresponding peer identity (hash of the public key) to stdout. This hash is used for the name of peers. -s, --print-short-identity Print the corresponding short hash (256-bit hash of the public key) to stdout. This hash is used for names in the zkey zone. -c FILENAME, --config=FILENAME Use the configuration file FILENAME. -h, --help Print short help on options. -L LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL Use LOGLEVEL for logging. Valid values are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING and ERROR. -v, --version Print GNUnet version number. BUGS
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