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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK commands, in different OS Post 303016048 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 18th of April 2018 09:55:44 PM
Old 04-18-2018
Step 1: verify that the $awkcmd variable has the right data in it. i.e.,
Code:
echo "$awkcmd"

should show nawk.

Then verify that nawk is in the PATH variable of the process running the code:
Code:
echo " I am running nawk which is `which nawk`"

Do that before playing with the awk code itself.

The awk code is clunky but looks, eh.., reasonable maybe, for nawk. If you get no output then you must rule out or find an error message about nawk not found, or if $awkcmd is not assigned you will get a shell error because the shell will try to run the awk code which is gibberish to the shell.

You need to start looking from the very first line, IMO. Keep ruling out problems as you go forward. Do not simply jump ahead 30 lines.

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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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