how efficient is it, and how practical is it to call outside programs in a shell script (bash) for small tasks?
for example, say i have a script that might preform many tasks, one of those tasks may require root access; rather than implementing inside the script a method to use su or sudo to... (11 Replies)
Hi
I have many problems with a script. I have a script that formats a text file but always prints the same error when i try to execute it
The code is that:
{
if (NF==17){
print $0
}else{
fields=NF;
all=$0;
while... (2 Replies)
Hello Everyone!
I am a newbie. I'd like to get key lines from a big txt file by Reg Exp, The file is nearly 22MB.
GREP or SED?which may be the best choice,more efficient way?
or any other best practise?
Thank you in advance.
Ever:) (5 Replies)
I have the following awk one-liner I came up with last night to gather some data. and it works pretty well (apologies, I'm quite new with awk, and don't know how to format this pretty-printed). You can see the output with it.
awk '{if ($8 == 41015 && $21 == "requests") arr+=$20;if ($8 == 41015... (3 Replies)
I've got this program set up so that it creates files whose unique names specify the jobs their contents describe. In order to retrieve the information inside those files, I have to do a "grep" and awk or sed to extract it. I've just assumed that making a directory with that unique name that... (1 Reply)
I have a very inefficient awk below that I need some help improving. Basically, there are three parts, that ideally, could be combined into one search and one output file. Thank you :).
Part 1:
Check if the user inputted string contains + or - in it and if it does the input is writting to a... (4 Replies)
Hello, there.
I'm a new beginner to Linux kernel and curious about its memory management.
When multiple applications apply for memory space at the same time, how Linux kernel solve the resource contending problem for high performance?
I have known that there is a buddy system for allocating and... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: blackwall
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
igawk
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)