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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting passing a regex as variable to awk and using that as regular expression for search Post 302599168 by Corona688 on Thursday 16th of February 2012 11:01:00 AM
Old 02-16-2012
That's a slight fallacy known as useless use of ls *, it's not ls that understands what * means -- it's the shell itself. That's why * works the same way with every command.

mput is independent of the shell however, and does its own processing of *, but it works the same way as the shell.

You're going to need to modify your shell script I think. Perhaps you can tell it the prefix you want, instead of giving it the entire "abc*.dat", and the shell can replace that itself, and you can feed that into awk in the form you want as well.

To modify your shell script I'll need to actually see it of course.

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This kludge might also work, but it's not pretty. It replaces all . by \., all * by .*, prepends ^, and appends $ to turn simple globs into regular expressions. If your awk doesn't have gsub, use nawk.

Code:
awk -v STR="*.dat" 'BEGIN { gsub(/[.]/, "\\.", STR); gsub(/[*]/, ".*", STR); STR="^" STR "$" }; /^-/ && ($9 ~ STR) { print $9 "|" $5 }'

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