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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with awk command Post 302441019 by hemanth424 on Thursday 29th of July 2010 06:41:17 AM
Old 07-29-2010
problem with awk command
I have written some code in a KSH script to find the index of the character in a string like this

Code:
#!usr/bin/ksh

string="Hi How are you"
awk 'BEGIN {print index ($string, "are")}'

My expected output should be : 8
but it is giving the out put as : 0

I wanted to store that index value in a variable. Can anyone please help me in this

Also I am trying to get a substring of the above string by providing the start index and end index and store the substring in another variable. I am not getting any clue how to do that.

Guyz please help
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
       /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).

FILES

       /etc/shells    list of shells on system

SEE ALSO

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