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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - help in removing some text Post 302998532 by Don Cragun on Friday 2nd of June 2017 08:54:02 PM
Old 06-02-2017
On a Solaris/SunOS system, you'll probably need to change:
Code:
zoneadm list -iv | awk '(length($4) > 3) && ($4 !~ "PATH") {print $4)'

to:
Code:
zoneadm list -iv | nawk '(length($4) > 3) && ($4 !~ "PATH") {print $4)'

or:
Code:
zoneadm list -iv | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk '(length($4) > 3) && ($4 !~ "PATH") {print $4)'

You will also need to use the same change from awk to nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk in the longer script RudiC suggested.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-02-2017 at 09:57 PM.. Reason: Add note about 2nd awk script.
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ucblinks(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      ucblinks(1B)

NAME
ucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to SunOS 5.x devices SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir] DESCRIPTION
ucblinks creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi- ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather than to the actual /devices entry. ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be removed by hand. ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been created, since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility names being needed. In releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a nawk rule-base to construct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses nawk for the default operation, although nawk rule-bases can still be specifed with the -e option. The nawk rule-base equivalent to the SunOS 5.4 default operation can be found in /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk. OPTIONS
-e rulebase Specify rulebase as the file containing nawk(1) pattern-action statements. -r rootdir Specify rootdir as the directory under which dev and devices will be found, rather than the standard root directory /. FILES
/usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk sample rule-base for compatibility links ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
devlinks(1M), disks(1M), ports(1M), tapes(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 13 Apr 1994 ucblinks(1B)
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