What you are getting surprises me when I look into the script you post:
If you'd define the function you call correctly, this might work better (my_func_local vs. my_local_func). And, don't put $k into the quotes to have it evaluated for the system call. And, awk uses sh to run the system call. Having symlinked /bin/sh to /bin/bash, I get
Anybody know what's wrong with this syntax?
awk -v job="$job" 'BEGIN { FS="|"}
{print $1,$2," ",$4," ",$3\n,$5,"\n"}' list
It's keeping give me this message:
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
It seems awk has problem with my BEGIN command.
Any... (8 Replies)
Does anybody know how to print a variable passed to awk command?
awk -F"|" 'BEGIN {print $job,"\n","Question \n"} {print $1,$2$4," ",$3}' "job=$job1" file1
I am trying to pass job the variable job1.
the output is blank.
?? (3 Replies)
I'm trying to get awk to do arithmetic functions with external variables and I'm getting an error that I cannot figure out how to fix.
Insight would be appreciated
money=$1
rate1=$(awk -F"\t " '/'$converting'/{print $3}' convert.table)
rate2=$(awk -F"\t"... (2 Replies)
I'm an experienced awk user, but this one has me stumped. I have an awk script which is called from a UNIX command line as you'd expect:
myscript.awk -v foo=$1 -v bar=$2 filename
My question is this: is there a mechanism for determining the names of the -v variables within a script?
... (3 Replies)
I have an awk script script.awk for example and want to pass a flag (let's call it "neat") so that the data is put into nice columns. For example like this
awk -v neat -f script.awk fin > fout
Then check inside the program if the use has put neat, if yes I output the lines in nice columns,... (1 Reply)
I have the following code in a csh script
I want to pass the value of the variable sigmasq to the awk script so that I can divide $0 by the value of sigmasq
grep "Rms Value" $f.log \
| awk '{ sub(/*:*\.*/,x); \
print... (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a text file with the next pattern
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
I want to assign to external variables the grades using the awk method.
After i read the file line by line in order to get the grades i use this
... (2 Replies)
Using ksh to call a function which has awk script embedded.
It parses a long two element list file, filled with text numbers (I want column 2, beginning no sooner than line 45, that's the only known thing) . It's unknown where to start or end the data collection, dynamic variables will be used. ... (1 Reply)
Currently have this:
set current=192.168.0.5
set servicehost = `echo $current | awk -F. '{print $4}'`
echo $numberoffields
5
..but would like to reduce # of variables and eliminate echo to have something like this:
set servicehost = `awk -v s="$current" -F. 'BEGIN{print $2}'`But... (3 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I have the following test.txt file and need to extract certain rows based on "starting position", "length of string" and "string to search for":
1a2b3d
2a3c4d
.....
My script accepts 3 parameters: (starting col pos, length to search for, string to search for) and would like to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pchang
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
apsfilter-bug
APSFILTER-BUG(1) BSD General Commands Manual APSFILTER-BUG(1)NAME
apsfilter-bug -- create a half-automatic bug report for apsfilter
SYNOPSIS
apsfilter-bug
OPTIONS
none
DESCRIPTION
With the apsfilter-bug script you can automatically create a bug report for apsfilter(1). A template report file is created which you can
edit with your favourite editor ( emacs(1) by default, or whatever is entered in the environment variable EDITOR ).
You will see a couple of lines starting with '#'; these lines will be removed before the report is sent. So if you want to use the '#' char-
acter at the beginning of a line, just indent it with a space.
A very important piece of the bug report is the debugging log created by aps2file(1), probably with a command like
aps2file -D -o /dev/null [-P...] [-Z...] [input] 2> log.txt
Unless you don't even have a chance to create a debugging log, it is crucial for serious bug hunting.
After you have filled in as much (useful) information as possible, you must save the file under its original name, then exit your editor.
If you invoked apsfilter-bug by accident, or if you need some additional system information to include into the bug report, just exit your
editor without saving the file.
NOTES
In addition to the stuff you've edited, some more information is appended to the bug report automatically:
apsfilter version 7.2.6-stable
ghostscript version (from 'gs --version')
system id (from 'uname -a')
configure options --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-awk=/usr/bin/awk --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
shell executable /bin/bash
awk executable /usr/bin/awk
sendmail executable /usr/sbin/sendmail
FILES
/usr/bin/aps2file script to create debugging output
SEE ALSO apsfilter(1), aps2file(1)BUGS
See apsfilter software center - http://www.apsfilter.org/ - for new versions, bugfixes and known bugs.
Please use the new tool apsfilter-bug(1) to release bug- or problem reports. It automatically presents you a form in an editor window which
asks you some standard questions. If you save and quit the editor session, then this report is sent automatically via e-mail to the proper
apsfilter mailinglist.
If apsfilter fails to print something or prints it in a way you wouldn't expect and you want to report an apsfilter error then please save
the debugging output of one print session using the new aps2file(1) utility by typing aps2file -D -Z options file > /dev/null 2> file.debug
and including the debugging output in the file file.debug into the edit session of the apsfilter-bug utility, so that it is included into the
mail to the apsfilter mailinglist.
Please note that you need to run /bin/sh (Bourne Shell), bash or a compatible shell, so that the above mentioned output redirection works.
Under C-shell (/bin/csh) or tcsh it would't work. If you don't know, then simply make sure you use the Bournce shell by typing /bin/sh or
bash, then you should have no problems with redirection of stdout and stderr (> /dev/null 2> file.debug).
DOCUMENTATION
See official apsfilter homepage
http://www.apsfilter.org/handbook.html Apsfilter Handbook including the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
USER FORUM
Please send questions to the official apsfilter help channel apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org. The above section BUGS and the file
HOWTO-BUGREPORTS tells you how to report bugs. If you want to know how to troubleshoot your apsfilter installation, please read the manpage
aps2file(1) and apsfilter-bug(1) as well as the Apsfilter Handbook carefully.
HISTORY
The apsfilter-bug manpage has been written by Michael LoBin <phallobst@web.de> and first appeared in apsfilter V 7.1.0.
BSD Dec 26, 2001 BSD