Does anybody have an explanation for the following:
The following scripts runs fine on IRIX64 6.5 but has bugs on Solaris 8.
#! /bin/sh
echo run only on an SGI machine
echo type in linenumber
read j
echo value
read value
awk -f rmspass2 level=$value $j'step1.mlf'
When the script is... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a unix shell script with an awk statement. I would like to print some of the fields of an input file. However, I would like to print them dynamically, ie by passing the literal $1 $3 into the script to define the output.
I have tried the following:
variable1='$1'
awk... (2 Replies)
I am trying to pass the results from a variable gathered from awk, however when I echo the 'PARSE' and 'SUB', the response is blank. This is my command.
awk -F= '/Unit/''{ PARSE=substr($2,1,5) ; SUB=substr($2,1,1) }' inputfile.lst
Is this a kind of valid attempt or am I obligated to declare... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files File1 & File2.
File1
76 135
136 200
250 345
....
File2
1 24
1 35
1 36
1 72
....
I want to get all the values form File2 corresponding to the range in File 1 and feed it to a program. Is the code below right? Can I pass shell variables to awk in this... (2 Replies)
Using ksh to call a function which has awk script embedded.
It parses a long two element list file, filled with text numbers (I want column 2, beginning no sooner than line 45, that's the only known thing) . It's unknown where to start or end the data collection, dynamic variables will be used. ... (1 Reply)
I'm trying to use awk to write new entries to a hosts file if they don't exist. I need to do so depending on the type of system I have. Below is what I have, but it isn't working.
awk -v myip1=$IP1 myip2=$IP2 myhost1=$HOST1 myhost2=$HOST2' BEGIN { mqhost1=0; mqhost2=0; stap1=0; stap2=0; }
... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Iam trying to pass global shell variables and is not working
Main script is like below
CYEAR=`date +"%y"`
CFYEAR=`date +"%Y"`
CMONTH=`date +"%m"`
if
then
PMONTH=12
PYEAR=`expr $CYEAR - 1`
PFYEAR=`expr $CFYEAR - 1`
else
PMONTH=`expr... (6 Replies)
Hello, new to the forums and to awk. Glad to be here. :o
I want to pass two shell (#!/bin/sh) variables through to awk and use them. They will determine where to start and stop text extraction.
The code with the variables hard-coded in awk works fine; the same code, but with the shell... (7 Replies)