Assuming that you are invoking a shell script that contains this line of code and you are passing it two parameters the first of which is the provider number and the second of which is the UNINUM (whatever that is) and that the 1st field in your datafile is the provider number and the 3rd field in your datafile is the UNINUM, it would be much safer to look for the provider number in the provider field and the UNINUM number in the UNINUM field than to search for both of them appearing anywhere in the line:
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I am trying to pass 2 shell variable's ("START" and "END") define earlier in the script to this awk statement, but i can't seem to pass it on. PLs help.
set START = xxxx
set END = yyyy
set selected_file = `awk '/$START/,/$END/' filename` (24 Replies)
I have an awk statement where I Need to pass an environment variable but I cannot get it to work:
My evironment varible examples below:
$FILE1=/dev/fs/file.new
$FILE2=/dev/fs/file.old
Code below:
awk -F"|" '
BEGIN {
while( getline < "$FILE1" )
{ arr=1 }
}
arr != 1 { print }
'... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I have a shell script with an ambedded awk script.
i need to pass a script variable to the awk script.
Please help.
Thanks in advance
Himani (3 Replies)
Hello experts,
can I return a value from gawk to a shell script ?
My script as follows,
#Here I want the num value to shell script so that I can use later
gawk '
{
split($0,num,",");
print num
}'
gawk -v no=$number '{print no}'
file1
... (3 Replies)
I am passing a varaible to from Shell to awk then I am doing some maniplation for that variable inside awk. I want that maniplated variable value back to shell , Is this possible .Please let me know. (12 Replies)
Hello Experts,
Actually I was searching for a solution here in this forum , but didn't get what exactly I want . Is this possible to do in awk ?
I am trying to do some thing like below in ksh script . Upto my knowledge I can pass shell script to awk with "-v " option.
But I... (3 Replies)
I know this topic has been dealt with previously, but the solutions I've seen don't work for me apparently.
I need to pass a variable defined in the shell to one in awk:
$ echo $var1
3
$ cat aaa
aaa 1
bbb 2
ccc 3
ddd 4
eee 5I've tried this, without success:
$ awk... (2 Replies)
Hi, all
suppose I have following myfile (delimited by tab)
aa bb
cc dd
ee ffand I have following awk command:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="\t"}{AwkArrayVar_1=$1;AwkArrayVar_2=$2};END{for(i=0; i<NR; i++) print i, AwkArrayVar_1, AwkArrayVar_2,}' myfileMy question is: how can I assign the awk array... (7 Replies)
I have a shell script (.sh) and I want to pass a parameter value to the awk command but I am getting exception, please assist.
diff=$1$2.diff
id=$2 new=new_$diff
echo "My id is $1"
echo "I want to sync for user account $id"
##awk command I am using is as below
cat $diff | awk... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Please need to print the Rej variable outsite the awk script which is given below...please advised how to achieve it.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter DMU Pipe delimited File name for the Feed to be validated"
read DMU_File
echo "Enter Pre-DMU File name for the Feed"
read Predum_file
... (3 Replies)