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03-15-2010

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awk in ksh

Hi all,

I have .ksh script, which is doing different things like creating output files, renaming them, sending them via ftp and save a backup of the files on the application server. Now I'd like to edit this file to be able to split the incoming file into 4 different files. Therefor the database pkg creating the content of the file adds prefixes to every single line. So the file looks like:

BDDandsomedifferentinformation
BDTandalsosomeinformation
BNDandsomeotherinformation
BADandagainsomeinformation

Tried to manually split that file with awk and it works fine:

Code:

awk '{close(f);f=$1}{print > f".txt"}' BHD000000744.TXT.3292214

But when I want to have this in the .ksh, I do not get any result?! It looks like it is doing nothing. Tried it that way:

Code:

if [[ ${_ftpfile} = @(BHD*) ]]; then
  awk '{close(f);f=$1}{print > f".txt"}' $_ftpfile
fi

$_ftpfile is the filename of the file which should be split, and the if checks if the filename starts with BHD, which also works, but as i said, not within the existing .ksh.

Any idea what the reason for that can be? Appreciate any help, thanks!

Mike

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

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       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

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