08-06-2009
Question regarding cat command
Hello Friends,
I have a question, i am trying to write a shell script in the bash shell.
#!/bin/sh
NAWK=/bin/nawk
AWK=/bin/awk
FIX_XML_PATH=/home/administrator/testfix/fix/
Y=`ls $FIX_XML_PATH | grep xml`
echo $Y
cat $Y
in this case when i do the echo $Y command it gives me the file name and when i do cat $Y, is give the error that not a file or directory.
What am i doing wrong can u please suggest?
Thanks
Adi
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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).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)