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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with printf command Post 302635943 by bipbip on Sunday 6th of May 2012 08:39:23 PM
Old 05-06-2012
help with printf command
hello,


I'm trying to display Unix variable using printf command.

Code:
Code:
 
awk '{ if ( $0 ~ /string/ ) {
printf( "%s\n%s\n",$0,"dsd"); #this one works
printf( "%s\n%s\n",$0,$HOME); #this does not work
} else {
print $0;
}
}' param1_1.txt

I could use here echo command but I'm not sure how to use it properly.

I mean "properly" because the intention of this code is to serach for a particular string in a code and then when the string is found then a specific variable should be displaied in the next line after the string.



with simple text I can achieve this but not with variable.
Does anyone know how to correct this?
 

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listres

LISTRES(1)						      General Commands Manual							LISTRES(1)

NAME

       listres - list resources in widgets

SYNOPSIS

       listres [-option ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  listres program generates a list of a widget's resource database.  The class in which each resource is first defined, the instance and
       class name, and the type of each resource is listed.  If no specific widgets or the -all switch are given,  a  two-column  list	of  widget
       names and their class hierarchies is printed.

OPTIONS

       Listres accepts all of the standard toolkit command line options along with those listed below:

       -all    This option indicates that listres should print information for all known widgets and objects.

       -nosuper
	       This  option  indicates	that  resources that are inherited from a superclass should not be listed.  This is useful for determining
	       which resources are new to a subclass.

       -variable
	       This option indicates that widgets should be identified by the names of the class record variables rather than the class name given
	       in the variable.  This is useful for distinguishing subclasses that have the same class name as their superclasses.

       -top name
	       This  option specifies the name of the widget to be treated as the top of the hierarchy.  Case is not significant, and the name may
	       match either the class variable name or the class name.	The default is ``core''.

       -format printf-string
	       This option specifies the printf-style format string to be used to print out the name, instance, class, and type of each resource.

X DEFAULTS

       To be written.

SEE ALSO

       X(7x), xrdb(1), appropriate widget documents

BUGS

       On operating systems that do not support dynamic linking of run-time routines, this program must have all of its known widgets compiled in.
       The sources provide several tools for automating this process for various widget sets.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright ([, X Consortium
       See X(7x) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHOR

       Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium

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