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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk command not getting executed in shell script Post 302958567 by vgersh99 on Friday 23rd of October 2015 10:38:04 AM
Old 10-23-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello Ashima,

In awk value of variables dosn't work like shell ones. Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
NAME="world"
awk -vname=$NAME  '/name/{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) printf $i " "; print $NF}1' myfile >tmp$$ ; mv tmp$$ myfile

Let me know if you have any queries.


Thanks,
R. Singh
no, this won't work either for the reasons RudiC explained above.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
NAME="world"
awk -vname=$NAME  '$0 ~ name{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) printf $i " "; print $NF}1' myfile >tmp$$ ; mv tmp$$ myfile

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
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       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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