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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk not outputting properly Post 302627999 by Zaphod_B on Sunday 22nd of April 2012 06:35:38 PM
Old 04-22-2012
Sorry for being so confusing.

The /path/to/file will be where the comma delimited file lives. On it it will have an existing value, and the value next to it that it should be changed to. So for example, there will be entries like this on the source file:

oldvalue1,newvalue1
oldvalue2,newvalue2
oldvalue3,newvalue3

So, I am basically creating an array of folders by either the find command or ls command depending on the task. I was not the original administrator of any of these servers or file shares. Then checking my comma delimited source file and if it finds a match in the first value, it will rename it via the mv command to the new standardized naming conventions.

My only hang up with my script is I cannot get awk to output one command properly. The thing that kills me, is that it works fine in the terminal, but when I put it in a script it just has a blank output. So if I run this in terminal:

Code:
/usr/bin/awk -F, '/oldvalue1/ { print $2;exit }' /path/to/input/file

that works and it outputs newvalue1, going off the example I gave earlier. However, when I put that command in my script and use variables, it doesn't seem to output properly. I tested my output by doing this:

bash -x /path/to/script.sh and every line prints out, there are no errors, it works as intended, but I am not seeing that output when I do that. It outputs a blank value. This is what is totally baffling me.

Sorry if I am still being confusing.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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