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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk within awk Post 302904908 by Don Cragun on Saturday 7th of June 2014 03:51:12 PM
Old 06-07-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by sidnow
Raw file
Code:
Rent,City,Car,Amount,Name
Pending,Chicago,BMW,4k,jack
Not pending,New York,Mercedes,Mary

So daily I would filter the file manually where the column rent would have records which are Pending so file I would have


Code:
Rent,City,Car,Amount,Name
Pending,Chicago,BMW,4K,Jack

Now I need to check Daily on this file with column Name and send mails to those guys whose name appears

So what is happening with above code is, even if the rent is not pendingn, but since email is mentioned in awk command it sends blank mails to Non pending Users

I am sure even the manual efforts can be done through awk, but am not too sure
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags for sample input and output as well as for code fragments.
I don't see the text Match anywhere in your input file, so the part of the awk script that is generating your table will never do anything. The only time this code:
Code:
$5 ~ /Match/ {
        if (NR==0) print "No data"
        else print "<tr>"
        for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
                print "<td>" $i"</td>"
        print "</tr>"
}

will do anything is if the 5th field on the line (i.e., the Name) contains the string Match.

There is absolutely no check in your code looking for the string Pending in the 1st comma separated field.

Your script is sending all messages to abc@123.com not to the person whose rent is pending. Your file does not contain an email address for anyone. How is your script supposed to generate an email address from the name in the 4th or 5th field in your input file?

Why don't all lines in your input file have 5 fields? Why is the name in field 4 instead of field 5 for lines that have a first field containing Not pending?
 

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