Other than that, please make the according corrections of for loops as Don already stated.
wasn't clear, line 84 in your script:
is missing a do and a done.
Since the indentation in your code seems to be random, I can't tell what you intend to include inside that for loop (i.e., where the done should be placed).
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Using the following I'm trying to print the user's response to the prompt Y / N but I get nothing other than the contents of $1?
awk '{
printf($1 " ? (Y/N)")
getline myresponse < "-"
system("read myresponse")
if (myresponse == "Y")
{ print $1... (17 Replies)
I am trying to write a awk script that prompts user for input to set the FILENAME varable. I can get it set, but I think awk is not doing anything with it.
this is what I have so far
#!/usr/bin/nawk -f
BEGIN {
FILENAME = ""
printf "Enter name of file to check in : "
... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am new to AWK and unix scripting. Please see below my problem and let me know if anyone you can help.
I have 2 input files (example given below)
Input file 2 is a standard file (it will not change) and we have to get the name (second column after comma) from it and append it... (5 Replies)
Hi Jim,
I have following script,i which i need to take dynamic value .
script,
nawk -v v1=grep"INT_EUR" $propertifilename | cut -d"=" -F2` -F'~' '{if (NF-1 !=v1)
{print "Error in " $0 " at line number "NR" tilde count " N-1}}' $filename
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Hi,
echo "Enter file name of input file list along with absolute path : "
read inputFileList
if
then
for string in `cat inputFileList`
do
echo $string
done
else
echo " file does not exist"
fi
From the above code, if the user enters a invalid file... (1 Reply)
this section of the awk code i have here takes file to work with from the user.
the user specifies the file name from the command line and the file name is assigned to the variable $FLIST
awk 'BEGIN {
while((getline < "'${FLIST}'")>0)
S
FS="\n"; RS="}\n"
}
now, i dont want... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this script, and I have very little experience, so I could use all the help I can get. :wall:
I regularly need to delete files from many directories.
A file with the same name may exist any number of times in different subdirectories.... (3 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I am looking for a shell script to merge input files into one file .. here is my idea:
1st paramter would be outfile file (all input files content)
read all input files and merge them to input param 1
ex: if I pass 6 file names to the script then 1st file name as output file... (4 Replies)
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)