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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Inserting a variable in awk script Post 302967149 by Don Cragun on Friday 19th of February 2016 11:56:20 PM
Old 02-20-2016
Making some guesses at what you were trying to do, you might want to consider this alternative script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -r "$1" ]
then
	printf '%s: File not readable: "%s"\n' "${0##*/}" "$1" >&2
	exit 1
fi
pattern=${2:-Default}
awk -v n="$pattern" '/^>/ {print ">" n "-" ++c, $3;next}1' "$1" > "New$1"

With your sample data, invoking this script with:
Code:
./ChangeID input.txt Pat3

writes:
Code:
>Pat3-1 55
cattctgatgaatatttgtcctttagttgttatttgt
>Pat3-2 19
cattctgatgaatatttgtcctttagttgttatttgt
>Pat3-3 17
cattctgatgaatatttgtcctttagttgttatttgt
>Pat3-4 6
cattctgatgaatatttgtcctttagttgttatttgt
>Pat3-5 6
cattctgatgaatatttgtcctttagttgttatttgt

into Newinput.txt.
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DPKG-WWW(1)						      General Commands Manual						       DPKG-WWW(1)

NAME
dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser SYNOPSIS
dpkg-www [-s|--stdout] [-h|--host host] [query] DESCRIPTION
dpkg-www is used to remotely control a WEB browser and open a dpkg URL on the local host from an interactive shell or script. If the command is invoked while running under X-window the script will try to find an installed X browser to open the specified URL. If not running under X it will try to use a text browser instead. If Netscape is found and a Netscape instance is already running it will be asked to open the dpkg URL on localhost with the optional query supplied on the command line. If there is no browser running, it will start automatically a new one. The functionality provided by this program is identical to running a web browser with the -remote openURL(http://localhost/cgi-bin/dpkg) argument or opening the same URL from within the browser. dpkg-www-installer is an helper application which can configured in the WWW browser for web installation. It should never be invoked directly by the user. OPTIONS
-s, --stdout Redirect output to stdout. Requires one of the text browsers (lynx, lynx-ssl or links) installed. -h, --host host Send the query to a remote host, where dpkg-www must be installed. query Specifies an optional package name, an absolute pathname or a query argument which is passed to the dpkg cgi-bin. See dpkg-www(8) for more information about the use of the cgi. FILES
/etc/dpkg-www.conf ~/.dpkg-www Configuration files for dpkg-www. It is not necessary for these files to exist, there are sensible defaults for everything, but you can specify your preferred www browser with the DPKG_WWW_BROWSER variable, for example: DPKG_WWW_BROWSER=mozilla EXAMPLES
dpkg-www This would open a dpkg URL on localhost listing all the installed packages. dpkg-www bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package. dpkg-www -h pisolo bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package on host pisolo. dpkg-www 'dpkg*' This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages matching dpkg*. dpkg-www /bin/bash This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the package(s) owning the file /bin/bash . dpkg-www depends=svgalib This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages depending on svgalib. dpkg-www --stdout depends=awk | grep ^ii This would list on stdout all packages depending on awk and grep all lines of installed packages. SEE ALSO
dpkg(8), dpkg-www(8) AUTHOR
Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>. Bugs should be reported via the normal Debian bug reporting system. LICENCE
dpkg-www is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. September 1, 2004 DPKG-WWW(1)
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