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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk printing question Post 302708645 by prodigy06 on Tuesday 2nd of October 2012 12:09:35 AM
Old 10-02-2012
i got this Pamu

awk '{if($0 ~ /Dev Config/){a=1}else if($0 ~ /VDEV/ && $1 ~ /^[0-9]/){if(! X[a]){X[a]=$1;a++;if(a > max){max=a}}else{X[a]=X[a]" "$1;a++}}}END{ > for(i=1;i<max;i++){print X[i]}}' input.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
 

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tzselect

TZSELECT(8)						    Linux System Administration 					       TZSELECT(8)

NAME

       tzselect - select a timezone

SYNOPSIS

       tzselect

DESCRIPTION

       The  tzselect  program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard
       output.	The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.

       All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.

ENVIRONMENT

       AWK    Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).

       TZDIR  Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).

FILES

       TZDIR/iso3166.tab
	      Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

       TZDIR/zone.tab
	      Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.

       TZDIR/TZ
	      Time zone data file for timezone TZ.

SEE ALSO

       tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

COLOPHON

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