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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing argument to system call in awk script Post 302400240 by mikesimone on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 05:34:56 PM
Old 03-02-2010
How can I build the string before I call the system on the string?
The basic flow is this:
  1. Read the next line in the file.
  2. Cycle through each field in the file until it sees "Network address"
  3. Knowing that the next field in the file after "Network address" is the DNS name of the
    host, pass said DNS name to dig.
  4. Put all of the IP addresses returned from dig, comma separated, on the line after the host name.

The command I'm passing works on the command line.

If I paste
Code:
dig +short +ignore +nonssearch +noauthority +noadditional -4 www.microsoft.com A  | awk '{for (k=1;k<=NF;k++) {if ($k ~ /[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/) {printf $k ","}}}'

on the command line, it works.

When I encase that in a print system([that string]) line, I get the following:

Code:
./convert: line 59: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./convert: line 59: `                               {print system("dig +short +ignore +nonssearch +noauthority +noadditional -4 %s A  | awk '{for (k=1;k<=NF;k++) {if ($k ~ /[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/) {printf $k ","}}}'" $(i+1));}'

I tried escaping the apostrophes (backticks produced even more errors) and that didn't help either.

Take pity on me. I'm a router / switch / firewall guy who is having to write scripts to translate from Symantec SGS to Cisco. I speak Cisco. I'm brand new to scripting. Smilie

Thanks!
 

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HOSTS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							  HOSTS(5)

NAME
hosts -- host name data base DESCRIPTION
The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the network. For each host a single line should be present with the follow- ing information: Internet address Official host name Aliases Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. Network addresses may either be specified for IP version 4 or version 6. IP version 4 addresses are specified in the conventional dotted address notation. IP version 6 addresses are specified using the colon-separated notation described in RFC1924. Host names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character. The hosts file is read by mDNSResponder(8) and used to supply results for calls to getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), etc. in addition to results obtained from multicast and unicast DNS. FILES
/etc/hosts SEE ALSO
gethostent(3), getipnodebyname(3), getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3) RFC1924: A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses. HISTORY
The hosts file format appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution December 11, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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