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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Eval in awk Post 302833897 by zulfi123786 on Thursday 18th of July 2013 03:43:19 AM
Old 07-18-2013
Eval in awk
Hi

I am trying to remove duplicates on keys in a file and so far the below seems to work

sort -t\| -k2,4 input.txt| awk -F'|' '{if (NR==1) print $0} {x=$2 $3 $4} NR>1 {if ($2 $3 $4 != y) {print $0}} {y=x}'
and now I want to pass comma seperated column number list to the script and use shell variable to hold the same and pass that to awk using the below, but it doesnt seem to work.
Code:
z=$1

echo \$$z|sed s/','/' $'/g

collist=`echo $2|sed s/'.'/' $'`

sort -t\| -k2,4 input.txt| awk -v awkcolist="$collist" -F'|' '{if (NR==1) print $0} {x=print awkcolist} NR>1 {if ($2 $3 $4 != y)  {print $0}} {y=x}'

The reason is awkcolist is evaluated to '$2 $3 $4' and not the actual values of those columns.

Please help

[Code tags doesnt seem to work for some reason on my browser at this point of time]

Thanks

-Zulfi
Last edited by Scott; 07-18-2013 at 04:58 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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