I can only emphasize what RudiC has said. Generally speaking: if you ever write a line with awk and grep ending in the same pipeline you are doing something wrong. In your case
will do the same as
Furthermore, the eval should only be used as a very last measure. In 99% of the time it is better to avoid it. I can't even see what the purpose of it should be in your case. Care to explain what, in fact, you are trying to do (the big picture, not the syntactical problem you had)?
Hi,
I want to check if a variable has a value assigned to it or not.
I can do following -
cat $Var > File1
if
then
echo "$Var has value"
else
echo "$Var is null"
fi
But I have to check for 3 Variables and I want to wrap it up in couple of unix statements.
Any... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I need help with the eval command.
I have been building a lengthy cmd using eval, and I need to create $var from the output of the cmd. Here is what I have.
Out=/dfezz1/output.txt
Node="'LPAR Info:'"
Gr3p0=" |grep"
Printc=" prtconf"
Output1=" 1>>$Out 0>&1"
Cat1="cat... (8 Replies)
I am making of a script that will go through a couple of for loops and create file names based on the values in that loop, however the variable that combines everything is not getting assigned properly:
#! /bin/bash
for imod in K33_j1b_WS9_6
do
for emod in mb2A mb2C mb3A mb3C mb4A... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i'm posting this in the Solaris forum although maybe it should be better in the General unix forum, I'm formatting an output witht he following command:
crontab -l | grep GBOUAT8 | grep UTP | grep -i stop | sed 's/\\//'
08 2 * * 2-6 /apps/sum_glob/gbo_uat/sparse/bin/dmg_cronlaunch -ENVI... (2 Replies)
The requirement is, there is a log file which contains a huge data. i need to get a particular field out of it by searching with another field.
ex:
2011-03-28 13:00:07,423 : millis=231 q={ call get_data_account(?,?,?,?,?) }, params=
i need to search for the word "get_data_account" in file... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Hope someone can help me out here.
I have this BASH script (see below)
My problem lies with the variable path.
The output of the command find will give me several fields. The 9th field is the path. I want to captured that and the I want to filter this to a specific level.
The... (6 Replies)
I am trying to check whether a variable has been assigned on the command line or not.
Here is what I did:
#!/usr/bin/bash
if( $variable == '\0')
{
print "variable was not assigned"
exit
}
else
NF = 2 {print $1, ""}
exit
fi
awk -f question1.awk variable = 58 letters.txt.
So... (3 Replies)
Experts,
I'm having problems with the code below.
I'm trying to test $var2 for two different regexs.
I thought it could be done per below, but I'm getting the following error when running.
$ ./test.pl b fed50c0100****
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked... (2 Replies)