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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk print to file problem Post 302501509 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 3rd of March 2011 06:51:40 PM
Old 03-03-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
That's also a useless use of ls | grep, you can just glob it like this:
The ls | grep wasn't entirly useless it was testing for existance of a file matching the glob to avoid issues if no TEST_* files are in the dir.

TasosARISFC, the {stuff} was supposed to be your actual awk script not to be inserted literally

This should be close to what you need (checks for no TEST_ files; {stuff} now replaced with awk code to do the job):
Code:
if [ ! "$CRM"/TEST_* = "$CRM"'/TEST_*' ]
then
    for FILE in "${CMR}"/TEST_*
    do
        # Store output in temporary file /tmp/$$
        # then overwrite the original's contents
        awk -F\| '$11~/(tbc|123456|to follow)/{$11=x} 1' OFS="|" < "$FILE" > /tmp/$$ &&
            cat /tmp/$$ > "$FILE"
    done
    rm /tmp/$$
fi

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 03-03-2011 at 08:04 PM..
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