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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk not outputting properly Post 302632771 by Zaphod_B on Monday 30th of April 2012 07:11:54 PM
Old 04-30-2012
well here is what I got and I think maybe the problem is my text file I was given has carriage returns in it? I am not sure of the source of it's creation as it probably changed hands half a dozen times until coming down the pipe to me.

My script basically looks like this now:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

# generate list of all folders that need to be renamed

fileList=$(/bin/ls -l /path/to/a/bunch/of/folders)

# input file of old,new folder names

folderNames="/path/to/folders_list.txt"

/bin/echo ${folderNames}

# loop through fileList and move home folder 

for i in ${fileList} ; do

newFolder=$(/usr/bin/awk -F, '/${i}/ { print $2;exit }' ${folderNames})


if [[ `/usr/bin/awk -F, '/${i}/ { print $2;exit }' ${folderNames}` == "${newFolder}" ]]

  then /bin/echo "${i} needs to be moved to ${newFolder}"
          /bin/echo "place holder for work flow mv of commands..."
  
  else /bin/echo "${i} does not have a match"
  
fi
done

exit 0

So, in my testing, everything outputs when ran from sh -x /path/to/script.sh or bash -x, except the newFolder variable will never output properly. Now that I think about it, I think the source file containing the old,new names could have been created on a Windows box, and was definitely created in Microsoft Office.

I haven't tried running the script on any machine just yet because of the echo output not matching.

Any ideas? Sorry, I am not the strongest awk programmer.
 

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