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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk alias passing a value to a variable Post 302650307 by ygemici on Saturday 2nd of June 2012 09:14:15 AM
Old 06-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by cokedude
Nothing. These errors are the problem.

[CODE]bash: alias: END{print: not found
bash: alias: s}); xrandr --output $VAR --mode 1024x768 --rate 60; xrandr --output LVDS1 --left-of $VAR;.......
if your full command executes succesfully then try to use the double quotes instead of single quotes..
Code:
# alias xx2=" VAR=$(xrandr | awk '$2=="connected"{s=$1} END{print s}'); xrandr ................xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary; unset VAR; " 

 

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$VAR and ${VAR} are replaced with the quoted value of the environment variable named VAR. Use the second form when VAR contains anything other than alpha-numeric or underscore (_) characters. Do not include quotes in the query. The variables account and domain contain the account and domain names given by the CVM client. $$ is replaced with a single dollar sign. QUERY RESULTS
The query must produce the following fields exactly in order. All required fields must not be null or empty. 1. Password, encrypted with crypt(3) (required) 2. Actual account name (required) 3. User ID (integer) (required) 4. Group ID (integer) (required) 5. Directory (required) 6. Real name (optional) 7. Login shell (optional) 8. Group name (optional) 9. Domain name (optional) 10. System account name (optional) 11. System account directory (optional) 12. Mailbox path (optional) DEFAULT QUERY
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