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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why my awk doesn't work? Post 302919891 by MadeInGermany on Sunday 5th of October 2014 11:09:12 AM
Old 10-05-2014
Two mistakes.
1. $3 is substituted by the shell even within "quotes". You need 'single quotes'.
2. the field delimiter : is wrong, there would be only two fields (with spaces). The default delimiter (white space) would work with $3 here. A more sophisticated delimiter is
-F ' +: +' and $2 is the value without leading spaces.
Code:
< /proc/driver/rtc awk -F ' +: +' '$1=="alrm_time" {print $2}'

---------- Post updated at 10:09 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:51 AM ----------

Just seeing you want the second field of the value. Then the : and $3 are ok.
 

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