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i need help with an awk question. i am looking to have an external variable be defined outside of awk but used in awk. so if we have fields $1, $2, $3 so on and so forth, i would like to be able to dictate what field is being printed by something like $. so if i had a counter called test, make it 3...

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So I have a if statement inside an awk to check if $2 of a awk equals a specific IP but the test fails. So here is what I have. # !/bin/sh echo "Enter client ID" read ID echo "Enter month (01, 02, 03)" read month echo "Enter day (03, 15)" read day echo "Enter Year (07, 08)" read...

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Insert external variable in a AWK pattern

Dear all, �How can i insert a variable in a AWK pattern? I have almost succeeded in solving a puzzle with AWK but now i want to make a script. Let me explain. cat file.txt | awk 'BEGIN {RS="\\n\\n"} /tux/ { print "\n"$0 }' I know that this command makes right what i want to do, but mi...

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I'm trying to get the universities result data into different file, where the $9 contains unversity field and field7,4 & 5 contains the keys to sort the students by marks. How to use uni variable to match against $9 inside awk? c=0 for uni in `cat /tmp/global_rank| awk -F ',' '{print...

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consider the script below sh /opt/hqe/hqapi1-client-5.0.0/bin/hqapi.sh alert list --host=localhost --port=7443 --user=hqadmin --password=hqadmin --secure=true >/tmp/alerts.xml awk -F'' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){ if($i=="Alert id") { if(id!="") if(dt!=""){ cmd="sh someScript.sh...

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awk programming -Passing variable to awk for loop

Hi All, I am new to AWK programming. I have the following for loop in my awk program. cat printhtml.awk: BEGIN -------- <some code here> END{ ----------<some code here> for(N=0; N<H; N++) { for(M=5; M<D; M++) print "\t" D ""; } ----- } ...

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awk - saving results of external script to variable.

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