So, yeah I figured it out, and it is working. I guess I wasn't grasping at first you cannot pass a bash variable to an awk program.
here is my new method and the output works as expected. Thanks for all your suggestions man I super appreciate it. This isn't high priority but I cannot let it sit any longer, otherwise I will have managers asking me why it is not done yet.
When i run sh -x test.sh, expr outputs x=expr $x + 1 instead of doing the arithmetic.. been working on this overnight.. and its being a pain in the arse if you ask me.. :confused::confused:
#!/bin/sh
#script for downloading numerical filenames
chap=1
p=1
count=0
x=1
while
do
if ... (2 Replies)
I have information in a file called HITS. This file has been populated by the user entering search criteria.
the HITS file contains information:
filname.hits: 123.33.345.66 Fri Nov 26 11.45.56.43 GMT 2006
at the moment i am just displayin the information using cat HITS.
... (3 Replies)
Hi!
I am a newbie to Unix. I was writing a little game program for fun when thought of an idea to allow data to be saved. I knew to take all of the Predefined variables and put them into a separate file, then including the file in the program. But I am having trouble making it so that the user... (0 Replies)
I'm trying to take a list of domains, find out the MX resolve it to IP then find out what the NS is and output the contents to a new file.
The only problem i'm having is when checking the Ip or host of the MX i can only get it to print the column with the MX record and the results of the host... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm having some trouble with an awk programme that i'm using to scan ascii files.
Unfortunately I'm not an experienced programmer but I think I am experiencing problems for a two reasons:
1) the awk was written by a PC programmer and it works on his machine, but only partly works... (10 Replies)
Hey there,
I have a table of contents file of the form
1 Title1
1.1 Subtitle1
1.1.1 Subsubtitle1
1.1.2 Subsubtitle2
...
and want to count the number of dots in the first field to find out the level of the section.
I use the gsub function for the job, which works if I pass the pattern... (2 Replies)
Hello I need some help in outputting Fields when the delimiter has changed:
echo "test1,test2 | test3,test4,test5" | awk -F"," '{print $1,"COUNT",$2,$4}'
prints out:
test1 COUNT test2 | test3 test5
But how to change the -F"," to -F"|" delimiter, so that it separates the
fields from $2... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Please advise. Scoured this site, as well as google for answers. However if you do not know what to search for, it's a bit hard to find answers.
INPUT:
ACTASS=
802
BASECOS=
279
COSNCHG=
3
CUSCOS=
52
UPLDCOS=
2
DESIRED OUTPUT:
ACTASS=802
BASECOS=279 (13 Replies)
With this script the output to the terminal does not increment. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get this to increment output to the terminal?
Here is the output
mpath major,minor number
ls: /dev/mapper/mpathp1: No such file or directory
raw device output
253,44
echo raw device... (5 Replies)
Hello friends,
There is one requirment where I need to login into database environment and pull all schema names into a text file ...
as of now below are the schemas available...
$> describe keyspaces;
system_schema system_auth system abc system_distributed system_traces
Now from... (4 Replies)