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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK syntax /bailing script error when executing in UNIX Post 302501396 by nandugo1 on Thursday 3rd of March 2011 12:01:53 PM
Old 03-03-2011
not working

well!!! the same code I have been using since long time...and it never showed this error....I am executing this on diff flavour of unix.....let me know any other way

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
You get a useless use of cat award. Smilie

You also need to quote things more, probably $i is being split into two strings and awk is trying to use the second half of it as its script.

Code:
while read TOKEN
do
        grep -i -l "$i" *.sas | awk -v token="$i" '{print token "\t" $0}'
done < search



cat > abc
for i in `cat tks`
do
grep -i -l $i *.txt | awk -v token=$i '{print token "\t" $0}'
done

Control-D

cat > tks
India Australia America

Control-D

cat -> file1.txt

India and Australia are world champions in cricket

Control-D

cat -> file2.txt

America is NBA champion.

Control-D
Now all files created
at the unix prompt where you run all these files

sh abc
 

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UNBUFFER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       UNBUFFER(1)

NAME
unbuffer - unbuffer output SYNOPSIS
unbuffer program [ args ] INTRODUCTION
unbuffer disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected from non-interactive programs. For example, suppose you are watching the output from a fifo by running it through od and then more. od -c /tmp/fifo | more You will not see anything until a full page of output has been produced. You can disable this automatic buffering as follows: unbuffer od -c /tmp/fifo | more Normally, unbuffer does not read from stdin. This simplifies use of unbuffer in some situations. To use unbuffer in a pipeline, use the -p flag. Example: process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3 CAVEATS
unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider: process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3 If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long to wait for process2 and process2 may not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency, unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or process2. In order to have a version of unbuffer that worked in all situations, an oracle would be necessary. If you want an application-specific solution, workarounds or hand-coded Expect may be more suitable. For example, the following example shows how to allow grep to finish pro- cessing when the cat before it finishes first. Using cat to feed grep would never require unbuffer in real life. It is merely a place- holder for some imaginary process that may or may not finish. Similarly, the final cat at the end of the pipeline is also a placeholder for another process. $ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | grep abc | cat abcdef xxxabc defxxx $ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | unbuffer grep abc | cat $ (cat /tmp/abcdef.log ; sleep 1) | unbuffer grep abc | cat abcdef xxxabc defxxx $ BUGS
The man page is longer than the program. SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995. AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1 June 1994 UNBUFFER(1)
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