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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Function's return value used inside awk Post 302266055 by Orbix on Tuesday 9th of December 2008 09:54:54 AM
Old 12-09-2008
Function's return value used inside awk
I have a file with the record of person:

Code:
cat > $TMP/record.txt
John Torres M Single 102353 Address
Mark Santos M Maried 103001 Address
Carla Maria F Maried 125653 Address

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
ManipulateID(){ 
	...
	return 0;
	... #or
	return 1;
}

cat $TMP/record.txt | awk 'BEGIN {printf ("%s", "'"`ManipulateID "$5"`"'")}'

The challenge I am facing is that I have to manipulate the 5th column in my file (record.txt) inside awk, then I have to pass the 5th column value to a
function in my script, the function will do some manipulation and test. The function will return 0 if the test is good and 1 if not. The returning
value of 0 and 1 will be return back to awk and awk will test it. If the returning value of my function is 0 awk will display the whole row ($0)
and do nothing if returning value of function is 1.

Anyone who can help me?
 

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