Your "sample two script" had two typos in the systemcall, a space before the trailing quote of "my_local_function" and a missing '$' before the 'k':
I added a '@' to the local function just for clarity:
Is this what was desired?
Please note that you'll be creating a subshell everytime you want to invoke the local function. An alternative to consider:
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Anybody know what's wrong with this syntax?
awk -v job="$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 MOJAVE
echo
ECHO(1) BSD General Commands Manual ECHO(1)NAME
echo -- write arguments to the standard output
SYNOPSIS
echo [-n] [string ...]
DESCRIPTION
The echo utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank (' ') characters and followed by a newline ('
') character, to the
standard output.
The following option is available:
-n Do not print the trailing newline character. This may also be achieved by appending 'c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2
compatible systems. Note that this option as well as the effect of 'c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002. Applications aiming for maximum portability are strongly encouraged to use printf(1) to sup-
press the newline character.
Some shells may provide a builtin echo command which is similar or identical to this utility. Most notably, the builtin echo in sh(1) does
not accept the -n option. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
EXIT STATUS
The echo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), printf(1), sh(1)STANDARDS
The echo utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
BSD April 12, 2003 BSD