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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk field not recognized in backquotes Post 302139458 by voa2mp3 on Sunday 7th of October 2007 07:10:27 AM
Old 10-07-2007
Java awk field not recognized in backquotes
Hi,

I am writing a script to use awk to generate a set of cp commands from an input file abc.

file abc:
/data/a.dbf
/data/june/b.dbf

desired output:
cp -pr a.dbf /data/a.dbf
cp -pr b.dbf /data/june/b.dbf

script:
$ cat abc | awk '{ print "cp -pr '`basename $1`' " $1 }'

I tried to use awk with basename command, but it seems that the field $1 in backquotes is not recognized by awk. How to fix it?

Many thanks,
voa2mp3
 

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dbfdump

DBFDUMP(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						DBFDUMP(1)

NAME

       dbfdump - Dump the record of the dbf file

FORMAT

	       dbfdump [options] files

       where options are

	       --rs	       output record separator (default newline)
	       --fs	       output field separator (default colon)
	       --fields        comma separated list of fields to print (default all)
	       --undef	       string to print for NULL values (default empty)
	       --memofile      specifies unstandard name of attached memo file
	       --memosep       separator for dBase III dbt's (default x1ax1a)

	       --nomemo        do not try to read the memo (dbt/fpt) file
	       --info	       print info about the file and fields
		       with additional --SQL parameter, outputs the SQL create table
	       --version       print version of the XBase library
	       --table	       output in nice table format (only available when
		       Data::ShowTable is installed, overrides rs and fs)

SYNOPSIS

	       dbfdump -fields id,msg table.dbf
	       dbfdump -fs=' : ' table
	       dbfdump --nomemo file.dbf

	       ssh user@host 'cat file.dbf.gz' | gunzip - | dbfdump -

DESCRIPTION

       Dbfdump prints to standard output the content of dbf files listed. By default, it prints all fields, separated by colons, one record on a
       line. The output record and column separators can be changed by switches on the command line. You can also ask only for some fields to be
       printed.

       The content of associated memo files (dbf, fpt) is printed for memo fields, unless you use the "--nomemo" option.

       You can specify reading the standard input by putting dash (-) instead of file name.

AUTHOR

       (c) 1998--1999 Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno,
       Czech Republic

SEE ALSO

       perl(1); XBase(3)

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