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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assign awk gsub result to a variable Post 302926803 by EAGL€ on Thursday 27th of November 2014 07:42:04 AM
Old 11-27-2014
Assign awk gsub result to a variable
Hello,

I have searched but failed to find what exactly im looking for,

I need to eliminate first "." in a output so i can use something like the following

Code:
echo "./abc/20141127" | nawk '{gsub("^.","");print}'

what i want is to use gsub result later on, how could i achieve it?

Let say i have a "$j" variable coming from a for-do loop (its a directory) and im using this variable in nawk by assinging it to dir, but i want to use it first stripping "." at the beginning. something like the following but i know red highlighted "dir" does not do what i want:

Code:
nawk -v dir=$j '!/total/{gsub("^.","",dir)}{print str"/"$NF}'

KR,
Eagle
 

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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
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FILES
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