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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Loosing formatting when echoing an awk script Post 302406587 by Corona688 on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 10:30:59 AM
Old 03-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by ROFL
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
When I echo out the output of my awk script I lose the formatting
that I set in my awk script (it should be in a table format).
You don't need to save it into a variable at all. If you don't redirect it, the code will print to the stdout of your script without interference.
Code:
set dir = $1
    foreach file ($dir/*)
        awk -f /home/alex/Desktop/aal $file
        printf "\n"
    end

It's messing up your formatting because of how your shell processes text before feeding it into echo, splitting things apart on whitespace etc. The answer is to not do that. Smilie
Quote:
Why?
Southampton University, UK, Paul Lewis, G400
Something to do with proving your intentions I think. We've had quite a lot of people use these forums to cheat. At least homework's not banned entirely anymore, hm? Smilie
Last edited by Corona688; 03-23-2010 at 11:38 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

igawk

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).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgawk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Volatile	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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