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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Make awk gsub take value of for loop Post 303013701 by bedtime on Monday 26th of February 2018 07:18:44 AM
Old 02-26-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
You still have 2 invocations of awk when you only need 1 and you still have too many braces in your 2nd awk script. Try changing:
Code:
awk -v vkeyIn="$keyIn" -v vkeyOut="$keyOut" ' $0 ~ vkeyIn, $0 ~ vkeyOut {printf $0; }' $XMLdir$XMLfile |
awk -v vdefTagIn="$defTagIn" -v vdefTagOut="$defTagOut" -v tagIn="$tagIn" -v tagOut="$tagOut" -v vkeySepA="$keySepA" -v vkeySepB="$keySepB" -v vdefSep="$defSep" -v vetySepA="$etySepA" -v vetySepB="$etySepB" -v vemSep="$emSep" '
{
	# Separation after main key word
	gsub("<orth>", vkeySepA)
... ... ...
	gsub(/\.\.\. /, "...")

}

{ print "\n" $0 "\n" } '

to:
Code:
awk -v vkeyIn="$keyIn" -v vkeyOut="$keyOut" -v vdefTagIn="$defTagIn" -v vdefTagOut="$defTagOut" -v tagIn="$tagIn" -v tagOut="$tagOut" -v vkeySepA="$keySepA" -v vkeySepB="$keySepB" -v vdefSep="$defSep" -v vetySepA="$etySepA" -v vetySepB="$etySepB" -v vemSep="$emSep" '
$0 ~ vkeyIn, $0 ~ vkeyOut {
	# Separation after main key word
	gsub("<orth>", vkeySepA)
... ... ...
	gsub(/\.\.\. /, "...")
	print "\n" $0 "\n"
}' $XMLdir$XMLfile

It should give you exactly the same results with a single awk instead of two awks piped together.
I've been wanting to merge the two awks into one, but have not been successful. This code does not make the program run as intended. It just gives a splash of ongoing text from the xml file.

The reason I used two awks is because the xml file has text that is all broken up between lines; I needed first to concatenate those lines into one line (only the ones of the key phrase), and then that line is easy to edit in the second awk; else, I would be having to edit one line of text between several lines, and that is beyond my knowledge at this point. If there is a way to first do one task (concatenate the text), and then do another (the rest of the text manipulation with that concatenated text), that would be great. I've tried several variations and have not been successful.
 

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igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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