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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Weird Awk issue Post 302184396 by Khoomfire on Friday 11th of April 2008 11:10:01 AM
Old 04-11-2008
Weird Awk issue

Hi All,
a bit of a weird one here. I'm trying to pass a variable into an awk command, and I keep getting an error.

I have the line

nawk -F"," -v red=$random_variable '{print $red}' $w_dir/$file_name > $w_dir/${column_name}

that keeps failing with the error

nawk: can't open file {print $red}
source line number 1


It's a bit weird, because I actually have another similar line later in my script that works perfectly

abbreviation=$(head -$counter $w_dir/$file_name| tail -1|nawk -F"," -v rad=$index '{print $rad}')

Maybe that's because the output is being assigned to another variable?
Any assistance will be very much appreciated.

Thanks
 

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echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int echo(void); int noecho(void); DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially, curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft- ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)
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