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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conditional delete -- New glitch Post 303024209 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 3rd of October 2018 04:53:10 AM
Old 10-03-2018
As you have been told before: Please tell us what operating system and shell you're using whenever you start a new thread in the Shell Programming and Scripting forum!

Warning: The following paragraph is only partially correct. For full detail, see post #5 in this thread.

Assuming that you're using a standards conforming shell, using cd inside braces only affects the current working directory of other commands run inside those braces. Therefore, the awk and shell commands in your pipeline will be run in the directory in which you were located when you invoked your script; not necessarily in /home/asp. Try changing the first line in your script from:
Code:
{ cd /home/asp; stat -fc"%b %a %S" .; stat -c"%n %b %B" 2018*.tar.gz | sort; } | awk '

to:
Code:
cd /home/asp && { stat -fc"%b %a %S" .; stat -c"%n %b %B" 2018*.tar.gz | sort; } | awk '

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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). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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