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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete string in a text file leaving the first occurrence Post 302094414 by gopskrish on Friday 27th of October 2006 11:43:28 AM
Old 10-27-2006
Hi Jim,

I have a problem executing the awk script which you have recommended.

I am using Korn shell. Do i need to change some thing to accommodate that.
Herewith i am attaching my file

test.txt
cat
cattle
bat
battle
mat
matter
fat
fatter
cattle
cattle

I am bit confused about the script. When i execute it, I am getting following error message.

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

Let me know what i should assign for $0 and $1.
Thanks in advance.
Since I am a novice, I have several queries from my end.

cheers,
gops
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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