I've searched this site and the wider web and have not found anything (that I can understand..) that helps me.
I've used shell commands in awk fine in the past, the difference is that I want to pass the shell command a field variable within awk from the current input.
A simple example I'm struggling to get working is below:
I'm using this noddy example just so I can understand how it works before I look at using it properly.
I want to be able to run a script on one server, that will spawn another shell which runs some commands on another server..
I have seen some code that may help - but I cant get it working as below:
spawn /usr/bin/ksh
send "telnet x <port_no>\r"
expect "Enter command: "
send "LOGIN:x:x;... (2 Replies)
Greetings Friends,
Suppose I wish to invoke some shell level commands inside an awk script how to do that?
say I wish to use : "wc" on a record to count number of characters in a record
Any clues?
Thanks,
Rishi (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I am having one situation in which I need to run some simple unix commands after doing "chroot" command in a shell script. Which in turn creates a new shell.
So scenario is that
- I need to have one shell script which is ran as a part of crontab
- in this shell script I need to do a... (2 Replies)
I am doing this simple script using c shell and korn shell. The commands I use are fgrep , ls, and also some redirecting. Is there any difference in using both of these commands in c shell and korn shell? Thanks and sorry for the stupid question. (1 Reply)
I want to log into a remote server transfer over a new config and then backup the existing config, replace with the new config.
I am not sure if I can do this with BASH scripting.
I have set up password less login by adding my public key to authorized_keys file, it works.
I am a little... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am trying to execute a shell script containg awk commands. But unable to do so. Below is my script. Please help.
The name of the script is scan.sh and I have tried executing it using the command sh scan.sh
It is giving an error which reads like:
awk:syntax error near line 7... (3 Replies)
basically i'm tired of hitting the left arrow a few dozen times when correcting a mistake or modifying a history command
i'd like to use vim style key shortcuts while on the command line so that a 55 moves the cursor 55 places to the left...
and i want all the other vi goodies, search of... (3 Replies)
Hey guys i want to use shell commands like ls, find, cd and more with in awk statements with inputs from the awk variables.
Like in the below code how can i change the directory using the value of path. Please suggest
awk '{ while (i<NR)
{
i++;
percentage = $5;
path = $6;
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rishi90
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
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).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)