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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using shell commands in awk Post 302496491 by Scrutinizer on Monday 14th of February 2011 08:12:53 AM
Old 02-14-2011
Try:
Code:
awk -v name=rpm 'BEGIN{while("rpm -qc " name "|grep etc"|getline configfile) print configfile}'

or
Code:
awk -v name=rpm 'BEGIN{while("rpm -qc " name |getline) if(/etc/)print}'

Of course, this is elaborate, you do not need awk for this as it can be done straight in the shell.
Code:
rpm -qc rpm | grep etc

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-14-2011 at 09:25 AM..
 

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rpmdb

RPMDB(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  RPMDB(8)

NAME

       rpmdb - RPM Database Tool

SYNOPSIS

       rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb}

DESCRIPTION

       The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is

       rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb} [-v] [--dbpath DIRECTORY] [--root DIRECTORY]

       Use  --initdb  to create a new database if one doesn't already exist (existing database is not overwritten), use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
       database indices from the installed package headers.

SEE ALSO

       popt(3),
       rpm(8),
       rpmkeys(8),
       rpmsign(8),
       rpm2cpio(8),
       rpmbuild(8),
       rpmspec(8),

       rpm --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that	what's	described  in  the  manual
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       http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/>

AUTHORS

       Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
       Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
       Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>

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