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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Does awk have parameter substitution? Post 302942752 by Michael Stora on Friday 1st of May 2015 01:22:50 AM
Old 05-01-2015
I thought the meaning of $1 was pretty unambiguous in AWK.

Here is a little more context:
Code:
 
while (getline < "'"$failListFile"'") { split( $0, a, ","); failMessage[a[1]a[2]a[3]a[4]a[5]]=a[8]
fs=a[6]; sub ( "^$", "0000 01 01 00 00 00", fs ); failStart[a[1]a[2]a[3]a[4]a[5]]=fs
fe=a[7]; sub ( "^$", "9999 12 31 23 59 59", fe ); failEnd[a[1]a[2]a[3]a[4]a[5]]=fe

Trying to do the assignment and default in a single command if possible (possibly analagous to parameter substitution in BASH, if such a thing exists in AWK).

Mike
Last edited by Michael Stora; 05-01-2015 at 02:32 AM..
 

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dpkg-awk

DPKG-AWK(1)						      General Commands Manual						       DPKG-AWK(1)

NAME

       dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-awk  Parses  a  dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records.  It can use regex on the field
       values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.

OPTIONS

       -f filename
       --file filename
	      The file to parse.  The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.

       -d [#]
       --debug [#]
	      Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.

       -s field(s)
       --sort field(s)
	      A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.

       -n field(s)
       --numeric field(s)
	      A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.

       -rs ??
       --rec_sep ??
	      Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.

       -h
       --help Display some help.

       fieldname
	      The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given.	The fieldnames are case insensitive.

       out_fieldname
	      The fields from the file, that are output for each record.  If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list  of  fields  that
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BUGS

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