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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using awk to when reading a file to search and output to file Post 302395256 by ski on Monday 15th of February 2010 12:33:08 PM
Old 02-15-2010
Using awk to when reading a file to search and output to file
Hi, I am not sure if this will work or not. I am getting a syntax error.

I am reading fileA, using an acct number field trying to see if it exists in fileB and output to new file. Can anyone tell me if what I am doing will work or should I attempt it another way? Thanks.
Code:
 
exec < "${fileA}
while read dataline
do
ACCT=`echo "${dataline}" | cut -c 1-7`
 
awk `{print substr($0,11,7)=="${ACCT}"}` "${fileB}" >> "${fileC}"

I am a syntax error on the awk line. Thanks in advance for your help.
Last edited by Scott; 02-15-2010 at 01:40 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

acct

ACCT(2) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   ACCT(2)

NAME

       acct - switch process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int acct(const char *filename);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       acct(): _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)

DESCRIPTION

       The  acct() system call enables or disables process accounting.	If called with the name of an existing file as its argument, accounting is
       turned on, and records for each terminating process are appended to filename as it terminates.  An argument of NULL causes accounting to be
       turned off.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       EACCES Write  permission  is denied for the specified file, or search permission is denied for one of the directories in the path prefix of
	      filename (see also path_resolution(7)), or filename is not a regular file.

       EFAULT filename points outside your accessible address space.

       EIO    Error writing to the file filename.

       EISDIR filename is a directory.

       ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving filename.

       ENAMETOOLONG
	      filename was too long.

       ENFILE The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached.

       ENOENT The specified filename does not exist.

       ENOMEM Out of memory.

       ENOSYS BSD process accounting has not been enabled when the operating system kernel was compiled.  The kernel configuration parameter  con-
	      trolling this feature is CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.

       ENOTDIR
	      A component used as a directory in filename is not in fact a directory.

       EPERM  The calling process has insufficient privilege to enable process accounting.  On Linux the CAP_SYS_PACCT capability is required.

       EROFS  filename refers to a file on a read-only file system.

       EUSERS There are no more free file structures or we ran out of memory.

CONFORMING TO

       SVr4, 4.3BSD (but not POSIX).

NOTES

       No  accounting  is  produced  for programs running when a system crash occurs.  In particular, nonterminating processes are never accounted
       for.

       The structure of the records written to the accounting file is described in acct(5).

SEE ALSO

       acct(5)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2008-06-16								   ACCT(2)
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