Hello
I have a text file with the next pattern
I want to assign to external variables the grades using the awk method.
After i read the file line by line in order to get the grades i use this
Is there a way to assign values returned by awk to external variables from inside the awk command?
I know the next code wont work but something like this
Thanks
I need to read a file (a list) and assign the value to a variable (for each line), I'm looping until the end of the file. My problem is, I want to assign 2 separate variables from the list. The process I'm using is:
awk '{print $3}' file1 > file2
awk '{print $4}' file1 > file3
cat file2... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to get awk to do arithmetic functions with external variables and I'm getting an error that I cannot figure out how to fix.
Insight would be appreciated
money=$1
rate1=$(awk -F"\t " '/'$converting'/{print $3}' convert.table)
rate2=$(awk -F"\t"... (2 Replies)
Is anyone able to help with writing a program that will do the following:
1. Read the contents of a file, line by line, and on each line, assign each of the two columns to a shell variable.
2. perform an action on the variables
3. Read the next line.
Here is what I've gotten so far. ... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have the following problem:
1. I have a file containing a line:
a,b,d,${d},e,f
2. From within a script I grep the file for '^a,' to get the line
3. I obtain the fourth field as follows:
Field4="$( print -r $fileEntry | cut -d, -f4 )"
4. The script exports variables at the... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have a piece of code ...wherein I need to assign the following ...
1) A command line argument to a variable
e.g origCount=ARGV
2) A unix command to a variable
e.g result=`wc -l testFile.txt`
in my awk shell script
When I do this :
print "origCount" origCount --> I get the... (0 Replies)
Hi
I am using 'awk" to get file size and date of the file:
op - sundev3 $ ls -l /bb/bin/tsfiles.sel | awk '{print $5 $6 $7}'
1587May8
May be somobody knows the way to combine this command with variable assignmet inside the awk, so I would have variables SIZE, MONTH and DATE assigned after... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
I'm currently writing a script for automating a FreeBSD ZFS setup (ZFSonRooT). I got stuck at one point for raidz(1,2 a.k.a raid5,6) and am in need of assistance.
This is what I need. example:
#!/bin/sh <- must stay sh
echo -n "hdd list: "
read hdd_list
echo -n "hdd label list:... (2 Replies)
is it possible to assign value to an array variable from an external file?? if yes then how??
I am using below code but its not working.
#!bin/bash
myarray < file_name
echo ${mayarray} (6 Replies)
I wrote a very simple script to understand how to call user-defined functions from within awk after reading this post.
function my_func_local {
echo "In func $1"
}
export -f my_func_local
echo $1 | awk -F"/" '{for (k=1;k<=NF;k++) {
if ($k == "a" ) {
system("my_local_func $k")
}
else{... (19 Replies)
I have been reading old posts and trying to come up with a solution for the below: Use a tab-delimited input file to assign
point to variables that are used to update a specific field, Rank. I really couldn't find too much in the way of assigning points
to variable, but made an attempt at an awk... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
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)