I was searching for a way to grep 2 lines before and after a certain keyword, and I came across the following code..
I could not understand how this works. What is system() ? what does that do? Can someone please help me understand what the above command does? Curious to know.
Thanks.
Last edited by Kulasekar; 12-30-2013 at 06:14 PM..
Reason: awk, context grep, system, invoking functions in awk
Hi,
I have a awk script to read a CSV file.
After reading the values i want to call a executable (nameely call_it) with the values what i read from the scv file.
I dont want to use system command inside the awk.
Is there any other way to run the executable from the awk script
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I am working on a bigger awk script in which one part is comparing the size of two files.
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Recently, I've started with shell scripting, and decided to write a script for my system backup using tar. When I was dealing with tar execution inside shell script I found this, inside shell we have the following code:
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Hi,
I would like to use grep command inside awk.
Here is my requirement below :
file.txt
col1 col2 col3 col 4 col 5
wrxwrx 124 jun 3 Sensex.EMEA
wrxwrx 120 jun 4 Emex.US
wrxwrx 130 feb 3 passion.AUS
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I want to run a command insdie awk statement
apparelnlty this script is not working for me
for i in $( cat clients_list)
do
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HI ,
I am trying to write a code where if a file system has / at the end then replace it with null but it should not affect root file system /
for example if
ip is /var/opt/home/ then o/p is /var/opt/home
but if ip is / then it should remain /.
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I tried running this.
dsh -w server1 'lsof /audit | awk '{ print $2 }''
It did not like above so I tried to escape the single parenthesis at the end.
dsh -w server1 'lsof /audit | awk '{ print $2 }\''
It then hung so I changed up the parenthesis to this. This worked.
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)