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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using AWK in a bash script Post 302543691 by neutronscott on Monday 1st of August 2011 06:47:40 PM
Old 08-01-2011
maybe...?
Code:
awk -F':' 'NF!=4{
    cmd="zenity --info --text '\''The file pathname \"" file "\" is not a four  field colon separated database file.\n\nClick OK to exit, and re-run this program.'\''";
    print ""|cmd
    exit
}' file=$2 $2


Last edited by neutronscott; 08-01-2011 at 07:58 PM..
 

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trace-cmd list [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
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