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Old 04-18-2011
bash variable (set via awk+sed) not working as expected

Hi!

Been working on a script and I've been having a problem. I've finally narrowed it down to this variable I'm setting:
Code:
servername=$(awk -v FS=\/ '{ print $7 } blah.txt | sed 's\/./-/g' | awk -v FS=\- '{print $1}')"

This will essentially pare down a line like this:
Code:
http://1.2.3.4/blah/moreblah/soo.blah/myserver1.domain.com/index.html#anchor>link

To simply this: myserver1

It's a bit involved, but it works.

The issue I'm having is that I've placed this within a loop (for x in 1 2... while 1 do ...) and the variable SERVERNAME parses through all the data on the first pass through so when the loop comes around a second time, there's no data and the script poops out saying "awk: can't open file XXXX" [where XXXX equals a myserver value]

If I set SERVERNAME=myserver1 manually everything works as expected.

Anyone know why setting this variable as command output is executing multiple times rather than just the single iteration I'm looking for? This behavior is showing up in awk and gawk.

Cheers!

-cd
ps. I've also used backticks, pushing the contents of this command to a temp file from which I "<temp.txt" the data into the variable, but it is always the same result.

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Last edited by zaxxon; 04-18-2011 at 06:18 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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DPKG-WWW(1)						      General Commands Manual						       DPKG-WWW(1)

NAME
dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser SYNOPSIS
dpkg-www [-s|--stdout] [-h|--host host] [query] DESCRIPTION
dpkg-www is used to remotely control a WEB browser and open a dpkg URL on the local host from an interactive shell or script. If the command is invoked while running under X-window the script will try to find an installed X browser to open the specified URL. If not running under X it will try to use a text browser instead. If Netscape is found and a Netscape instance is already running it will be asked to open the dpkg URL on localhost with the optional query supplied on the command line. If there is no browser running, it will start automatically a new one. The functionality provided by this program is identical to running a web browser with the -remote openURL(http://localhost/cgi-bin/dpkg) argument or opening the same URL from within the browser. dpkg-www-installer is an helper application which can configured in the WWW browser for web installation. It should never be invoked directly by the user. OPTIONS
-s, --stdout Redirect output to stdout. Requires one of the text browsers (lynx, lynx-ssl or links) installed. -h, --host host Send the query to a remote host, where dpkg-www must be installed. query Specifies an optional package name, an absolute pathname or a query argument which is passed to the dpkg cgi-bin. See dpkg-www(8) for more information about the use of the cgi. FILES
/etc/dpkg-www.conf ~/.dpkg-www Configuration files for dpkg-www. It is not necessary for these files to exist, there are sensible defaults for everything, but you can specify your preferred www browser with the DPKG_WWW_BROWSER variable, for example: DPKG_WWW_BROWSER=mozilla EXAMPLES
dpkg-www This would open a dpkg URL on localhost listing all the installed packages. dpkg-www bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package. dpkg-www -h pisolo bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package on host pisolo. dpkg-www 'dpkg*' This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages matching dpkg*. dpkg-www /bin/bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the package(s) owning the file /bin/bash . dpkg-www depends=svgalib This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages depending on svgalib. dpkg-www --stdout depends=awk | grep ^ii This would list on stdout all packages depending on awk and grep all lines of installed packages. SEE ALSO
dpkg(8), dpkg-www(8) AUTHOR
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dpkg-www is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. September 1, 2004 DPKG-WWW(1)
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