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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk not outputting properly Post 302633087 by Zaphod_B on Tuesday 1st of May 2012 09:42:23 AM
Old 05-01-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by neutronscott
Then I don't see much issue in trying the first code snipplet. It works here:

Code:
mute@goflex:~/test$ ls
folder_list.txt  olddir  olddir2  olddir3  script
mute@goflex:~/test$ ./script
mute@goflex:~/test$ ls
Projects  Something Awesome  Web Site  folder_list.txt  script
mute@goflex:~/test$ cat folder_list.txt
olddir,Something Awesome
olddir2,Projects
olddir3,Web Site
mute@goflex:~/test$ cat script
#!/bin/bash
while IFS=, read -r olddir newdir; do
        newdir=${newdir%$'\r'} #remove dos line endings...?

        mv "$olddir" "$newdir"
done < folder_list.txt
mute@goflex:~/test$

I think this may not work, since there is one master list and a ton of shares, and the file shares will have tons of different sets of folders. To give a broad example, some offices will have say an accounting department with different folders, and other offices won't. So, I need to test whole file shares against a master naming convention list.

Does that make sense? Will this work?

See when I do this:

Code:
awk -F, '/testfolder1/ { sub(/\r/,"");print $2;exit }' ~/home/folders_list.txt 
testfolder2

So, I have a variable that grabs the new folder by comparing the folder name in the loop to the master text list, if it finds it, it prints the second value delimited by comma. I am sure I am not coding this the most efficient way, but I am not a total awk wizard here, just know enough to get jobs done. So, my variable is:

Code:
newFolder=`awk -F, '/t${i}/ { sub(/\r/,"");print $2;exit }' ~/home/folders_list.txt `
echo ${newFolder}
''

So, when I echo out the output of the newFolder it always turns up blank when I test it.

See that output works like a charm when I run it manually. When I pass my array of data through a loop and use ${i} in place of testfolder1 and run the script via bash -x /path/to/script, the output is blank. It outputs nothing. When I run the command manually, it outputs testfolder2. In my text file somewhere in the middle there is this entry:

testfolder1,testfolder2

So, is there any valid reasons why my echo will not output?

Last edited by Zaphod_B; 05-01-2012 at 11:03 AM..
 

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