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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Inputting text to a specific line of a file Post 302433647 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 07:12:50 AM
Old 06-30-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by JayC89
I just tried running that Frankin and get an error;
Code:
bash-2.05$ awk '/Bottom line/{system("grep -i test *")1' test.txt > newfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

Any ideas? This is on Solaris10 if it helps Smilie
Sorry, I had a typo in the code:
Code:
awk '/Bottom line/{system("grep -i test *")}1' test.txt > newfile
mv newfile test.txt

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

Regards

Last edited by Franklin52; 06-30-2010 at 08:19 AM.. Reason: Typo
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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). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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