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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing date into awk... Post 302650283 by Nithz on Saturday 2nd of June 2012 06:25:28 AM
Old 06-02-2012
Passing date into awk...
Hi All....

I need to pass date into awk and parse logfile based on that.... i used both awk and /usr/xpg4/bin/awk... both are throwing up error.....


So here is the stuff...

when i use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk :
Code:
DATE=`date '+%Y %b %d'`
START=00
END=23
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v DATE={"$DATE"} -v START=$START -v END=$END '/DATE START/,/DATE END/' logfile.log  > processfile.txt

Error :

Code:
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk: inadmissible use of reserved keyword  Context is:
>>>     {2010 Jan 02}1023       <<<

when i use awk:

Code:
DATE=`date '+%Y %b %d'`
START=00
END=23
awk -v DATE={"$DATE"} -v START=$START -v END=$END '/DATE START/,/DATE END/' logfile.log  > processfile.txt


Error:
Code:
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


Can anyone think of y this error is happening??? How to finally pass date into awk???
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-02-2012 at 07:46 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

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   Large file aware utilities
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