As did the other (faster) poster, I tried reformatting the script to make it easier to read, and to make the logic work (as it seemed to me). You can correct if I mixed something up.
As the other poster stated, the problem is because the awk script is enclosed in 'single quotes'. So awk just sees the literal $ITERATOR. In other words, the shell variable is not expanded.
If your version of awk supports the -v option, I've suggested a nice alternative way to make it work. I couldn't get the other submitted script to work, but I'm probably messing it up. I hope at least one of them works for you!
Instead of using awk to print the one line, you could also use the simpler sed command I added.
Hi,
I have a situation where I have to specify a different value to an awk command, I beleive i have the gist of this done, however I am not able to get this correct. Here is what I have so far
echo $id
065859555
This value occurs in a "pipe" delimited file in postition 8. Hence I would... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a awk command that is stored in a variable.
the value of the variable cmd is:
(mean output of echo $cmd is: )
awk -F";" '{print $1}'
Now I want to execute this command.
How can I do that????
Quick Reply will be appreciated.
Regards,
Amit (2 Replies)
Hi Jim,
The following script is in working state. But i m having one more problem with awk cmd. Could you tell me how to use any variable inside awk or how to take any variable value outside awk.
My problem is i want to maintain one property file in which i am declaring variable value into that... (12 Replies)
Okay, so I am trying to use a count variable to reference the column of output sent from an echo statement. So I am trying to do this
#!/bin/bash
CURRENT=$PWD
VAR=3
CHANGE=`echo $CURRENT | awk -F "/" '{ print \$$VAR }'`
This instead of giving me the third instance after the "/" gives... (4 Replies)
Trying to do something like this
ls -lrt | awk '$9=="test5"'
-rw-r--r-- 1 lrmq db2iadm1 381 Sep 20 21:56 test5
But now, I need to give a variable in place of test5. For example let's define x as test5
x=test5
ls -lrt | awk '$9=="$x"'
This doesn't seem to be working. It doesn't take the... (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I need a suggestion, please help. I have a input file as below :
abc.txt :
*
xxxx: 00000
xxxxx: 00000
xxxx: RANDOM
xxx: RANDOM
**************************xxxxxxx***
* abc
******************************
abc:
abc: ... (3 Replies)
here is what i have so far
delim=`cat $HOME/tmp/interchange_hold | head -1 | cut -b4`
cat $HOME/tmp/rawfile_hold | (
while read line
se_check=`echo $line | awk -F: -v awkvar="$delim" '{ print $1}'`
delim will hold the 4th char of a file.
Lets say that char is a *
the line im... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Can anyone of you please tell me how to use a variable inside a awk command.
For ex - if am printing the third column with respect to a pattern with delimiter ~
awk -F~ '$3=="pattern"' <file name> - This works,
Now here I have a set of patterns in a file and I want to put it in... (1 Reply)
I'm working on a script in which gives certain details in its output depending on user-specified options. So, what I'd like to do is something like:
if
then
awkcmd='some_awk_command'
else
awkcmd='some_other_awk_command'
fi
Then, later in the script, we'd do something like:
... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to run a script to extract data from the file. The format of the file is as below:
filename: sample.log
12345| ABCD
23456| GKHY
33454| ABCD
98765| TTRRI want to run a command in AWK as show below
extract.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: chetanojha
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
03-27-2013
