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Old 09-12-2011
awk command - not a valid identifier message

Trying to run the following awk command :
Code:
export com.mics.ara.server.tools.sch_reports.Runner.num_threads=`awk -F= '!/^#/ && /com.mics.ara.server.tools.sch_reports.Runner.num_threads/{print $2}' $BKUPDIR/env.properties`
 
-bash: export: `com.mics.ara.server.tools.sch_reports.Runner.num_threads=': not a valid identifier

but i'm getting the following error message as per above ?

Last edited by vbe; 09-12-2011 at 12:29 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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Child::Link::IPC::Pipe(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Child::Link::IPC::Pipe(3pm)

NAME
Child::Link::IPC::Pipe - Base class for link objects used by the Child::IPC::Pipe plugin. SEE ALSO
This class inherits from: Child::Link::IPC HISTORY
Most of this was part of Parrallel::Runner intended for use in the Fennec project. Fennec is being broken into multiple parts, this is one such part. FENNEC PROJECT
This module is part of the Fennec project. See Fennec for more details. Fennec is a project to develop an extendable and powerful testing framework. Together the tools that make up the Fennec framework provide a potent testing environment. The tools provided by Fennec are also useful on their own. Sometimes a tool created for Fennec is useful outside the greator framework. Such tools are turned into their own projects. This is one such project. Fennec - The core framework The primary Fennec project that ties them all together. AUTHORS
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