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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers AWK - Hard to understand for me Post 302607815 by ambarginni on Thursday 15th of March 2012 11:37:27 AM
Old 03-15-2012
Power

When I executed the below code in command prompt again the same problem.... Seeking for a delimiter and not taking the below as a executable code

Code:
BEGIN { print "SNA_DB_UPG.list"," }
{ print $8, "\t", $3}
END { print " - DONE -" }


It is requested to please explain me.
 

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TZSELECT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       TZSELECT(8)

NAME
tzselect - select a time zone SYNOPSIS
tzselect DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable. All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk). TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo). FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names. TZDIR/zone.tab Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments. TZDIR/TZ Time zone data file for time zone TZ. EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise. SEE ALSO
newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8) TZSELECT(8)
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