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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bad option(s) with awk Post 302369002 by rajeshorpu on Friday 6th of November 2009 07:38:17 AM
Old 11-06-2009
bad option(s) with awk
Hi All

I am trying to split a string which is like below

-p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties_-iPEL17

i want to split "_" as delimiter.

Please find the code below

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cd /usr/home/dfusr/backup
OriginalString='-p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties_-iPEL17'
myCmdLineArg1=""
myCmdLineArg2=""

set -A cmdLineArgs `echo "$OriginalString"| awk '{z=split($0,flds,"_")
   for(i=1;i<=z;i++)
   print flds[i]}'`
  echo "cmdLineArgs[0]:::::::: ${cmdLineArgs[0]}"
  echo "cmdLineArgs[1]:::::::: ${cmdLineArgs[1]}"
  myCmdLineArg1=${cmdLineArgs[0]}
  myCmdLineArg2=${cmdLineArgs[1]}

I am getting bad option(s) exception


Please advice where i am doing wrong in above code. Does awk works with "-" at first place.


Please correct my code.


Thanks-
Raj
Last edited by radoulov; 11-06-2009 at 08:55 AM.. Reason: Use code tags, please!
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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