/bin/rmdir needs to be enclosed by double quotes and leave a blank between the closing double quote and the command itself like:
You are not omitting the line with "total" so you will get ugly output. This can be changed if you use
instead of
Also you can leave out the closing separator ";" after the last print since there is nothing more to delimit. Also if() is not needed since awk has testing built in like
Last edited by zaxxon; 06-15-2010 at 02:21 AM..
Reason: added comments
Hello,
i was just wondering how can i use shell command in awk script file? say suppose i want to print the date at the top of the report i generate using awk how can i do that? Thanks in advance! :) (5 Replies)
Hi,
When i run the below command i am able to get the output.
awk '/BEGIN DSSUBRECORD/{c=3;next}c-->0' abc.txt |
awk '/END DSSUBRECORD/{exit}{print}' |
awk '/Owner/{exit}{print}' |
awk '{n2=n1;n1=n;n=$0;if(NR%3==0){printf"%s,%s,%s\n",n2,n1,n}}'
Output:
Name "file_name", ... (5 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what my bash script does: sums number columns, saves the tot in new column, outputs if tot >= threshold val:
> cat getnon0file.sh
#!/bin/bash
this="getnon0file.sh"
USAGE=$this"
InFile="xyz.38"
Min="0.05"
#
awk '{sum=0; for(n=2; n<=NF; n++){sum+=$n};... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files File1 & File2.
File1
76 135
136 200
250 345
....
File2
1 24
1 35
1 36
1 72
....
I want to get all the values form File2 corresponding to the range in File 1 and feed it to a program. Is the code below right? Can I pass shell variables to awk in this... (2 Replies)
Trying to do something like this
ls -lrt | awk '$9=="test5"'
-rw-r--r-- 1 lrmq db2iadm1 381 Sep 20 21:56 test5
But now, I need to give a variable in place of test5. For example let's define x as test5
x=test5
ls -lrt | awk '$9=="$x"'
This doesn't seem to be working. It doesn't take the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I hope you can help me with the awk command in shell scripting.
I want to do the following, but it doesn't work.
for i in $REF1 $REF2 $REF3; do
awk '{if($n>=0 && $n<=50000){count+=1}} END{print count}' ${DIR}${i} >${DIR}${i}_count.txt
done
REF1 to REF3 are only variables for .txt... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Please excuse me for opening a new thread i am unable to find out the syntax error
in my if else condition inside for loop in awk command ,
my actual aim is to print formatted html td tag when if condition (True) having string as "failed",
could anyone please advise what is the right... (2 Replies)
I have a shell script (.sh) and I want to pass a parameter value to the awk command but I am getting exception, please assist.
diff=$1$2.diff
id=$2 new=new_$diff
echo "My id is $1"
echo "I want to sync for user account $id"
##awk command I am using is as below
cat $diff | awk... (2 Replies)
I am able to execute awk command from shell prompt. but the same command is not getting executed when written and run in a bash script
the command from bash cmd prompt.
awk '/world/{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) printf $i " "; print $NF}1' myfile >tmp$$ ; mv tmp$$ myfile
file:
# hello world my... (4 Replies)
Hi
I want to create a shell script with the following awk command & also get the filenames in output.
awk '/<catetcsecuretty0>/ {p=1} /<catvarlogmessages0>/ {p=0} p' *.xml
As there will be multiple outputs related to many xml files I cannot identify which output belongs to which file
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sharp488
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
explain_rmdir_or_die
explain_rmdir_or_die(3) Library Functions Manual explain_rmdir_or_die(3)NAME
explain_rmdir_or_die - delete a directory and report errors
SYNOPSIS
#include <libexplain/rmdir.h>
void explain_rmdir_or_die(const char *pathname);
DESCRIPTION
The explain_rmdir_or_die function is used to call the rmdir(2) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
from explain_rmdir(3), and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
This function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:
explain_rmdir_or_die(pathname);
pathname
The pathname, exactly as to be passed to the rmdir(2) system call.
Returns:
This function only returns on success. On failure, prints an explanation and exits.
SEE ALSO rmdir(2)
delete a directory
explain_rmdir(3)
explain rmdir(2) errors
exit(2) terminate the calling process
COPYRIGHT
libexplain version 0.52
Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller
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