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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk filelist containing strange characters Post 302551699 by nashcom on Wednesday 31st of August 2011 10:20:40 AM
Old 08-31-2011
awk filelist containing strange characters
I've written a script:

Code:
find -depth | awk ‘
   {
      if ( substr($1,length($0)-2,3) == “/1.” )
         { print $1 }
         { system(“awk -f test1.awk “ $1 ) }
   }
‘

The idea is that it trundles through a large directory structure looking for files which are named '1.' and then passes them to an awk script which processes them. However, the directory structure has some unusual folders which are tripping it up. These folders have the caret (^) and commas (,) in their names, for example:

INBOX^Year2011
Details for Sue, Bob, Jane

I think with those sorts of folder names you have to enclose everything in double quotes, but I'm not sure how to do that in the above script. I've tried playing around with variables, and /" and suchlike, but I'm not sure if it's even possible. My scripts are displaying errors such as 'Cannot open.... no such file or directory...' The {print $1} line seems to work - it displays the full path to the file.

Thanks.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

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).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgawk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Volatile	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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