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using awk for setting variable but change the output of this variable within awk

Hi all,

Hope someone can help me out here.
I have this BASH script (see below)

My problem lies with the variable path.
The output of the command find will give me several fields. The 9th field is the path. I want to captured that and the I want to filter this to a specific level.

The output of the path is somewhat like this: /Volume/Server/department/otherlevels/....

The part I want to capture in the variable is the department.
I can do this in a single line with awk -F/ '{print $5}' But I need it in an array.

Using it like it is now will give me an error.

Any idea how to resolve this ?

Many regards,

Ronald

Code:

find . -iname $1 -exec ls -l {} \; | awk 'BEGIN {

# Initialize all Arrays
        size = "0";
        u_count[""]=0;
        all_count[""]=0;
}
{
# Assign field names
        sizes=$5
        path=$( echo $9 awk {-F/ '{print $5}'} )

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NAME

       shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables

SYNOPSIS

       shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments.  It
       prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -s, --suppress
	   Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.

       -r, --reverse
	   Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.

       -d, --dirname
	   Output the directory name of str.

       -b, --basename
	   Output the base name of str.

       -m, --magic
	   Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".

       -p, --path path
	   Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH.

EXAMPLE

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