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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem in redirecting records using nawk Post 302596249 by siteregsam on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 03:36:03 AM
Old 02-07-2012
When I hardcode the file name inside double quotes, say "bad_file.txt", as below nawk works fine.
Code:
nawk -F"|" '{if(NF!=14){printf("%s\n",$0) >> "bad_file.txt"} else {printf("%s\n",$0) >> "good_file.txt"}}' input_file.txt

but when i try using the variable as below i am getting error.
Code:
nawk -F"|" '{if(NF!=14){printf("%s\n",$0) >> "$bd_file"} else {printf("%s\n",$0) >> "$fn"}}' $fn_orig

Code:
 
Error:
nawk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
        {if(NF!=14){printf("%s\n",$0) >> >>>  "$bd_file" <<< }else{printf("%s\n",$0) >> "$fn"}}
nawk: illegal statement at source line 1

bd_file --> bad_file.txt
fn --> good_file.txt

someone plz help me as how to overcome this error.
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-07-2012 at 04:54 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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