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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using AWK in IF evaluation in KSH Post 302427203 by sniper57 on Friday 4th of June 2010 07:28:34 AM
Old 06-04-2010
Using AWK in IF evaluation in KSH
Hi -

I have an expression that evaluates to "Alive" or some other condition. e.g. if I run :-

Code:
awk -F \| '{gsub(/[[:space:]]*/,"",$4); print $4 }'

then the output is "Alive".

I want to be able to test this as the result may be some other condition other than "Alive". I have tried the following which doesn't work. Can someone tell me what is wrong please ?

Code:
if [[ `awk -F \| '{gsub(/[[:space:]]*/,"",$4); print $4 }'` != "Alive" ]]; then

Thanks in advance.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       -a, --add
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       -s, --state STATE
	   Set the new state of the node. The available states are: Alive, Absent and Dead.

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