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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk: System command not working in awk Post 302925784 by Corona688 on Wednesday 19th of November 2014 10:37:14 AM
Old 11-19-2014
It's perilous to alter your originals. One mistake and you've trashed all your input data. I would begin by renaming all your files to FILENAME".tmp" and create new ones with the original filenames instead; delete your originals once you've tested the new data and have made sure it's worked to your satisfaction.

END does not work that way, it runs once and only once, after the very last file is read. You need to watch for the filename changing instead. Or, better yet, move that function outside of awk.

It's safe and normal to rename a file while you have it open, on UNIX. I've tested this and it will end up with the originals in *.tmp and the new files in *.prc. It will warn you about running it twice in a row without checking the data.

Code:
for FILE in *.tmp
do
        [ -f "$FILE" ] || break
        echo ".tmp files remaining from last run -- check and delete if originals OK" >&2
        exit 1
done

awk -v OFS="|" '(!F) || (F != FILENAME) { if(F) close(F) ; F=FILENAME ; system("mv "F" "F".tmp"); }  { print ... > F }' *.ext

 

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