Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: awk trouble inside another command
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users awk trouble inside another command Post 303037481 by cokedude on Friday 2nd of August 2019 06:17:40 PM
Old 08-02-2019
awk trouble inside another command
I tried running this.

Code:
dsh -w server1 'lsof /audit | awk '{ print $2 }''

It did not like above so I tried to escape the single parenthesis at the end.
Code:
dsh -w server1 'lsof /audit | awk '{ print $2 }\''

It then hung so I changed up the parenthesis to this. This worked.
Code:
dsh -w server1 "lsof /audit | awk '{ print $2 }'"

I then noticed I needed to add some field separators. This is not working all. I need both colon space, and space all by its self.
Code:
dsh -w server1 "lsof /audit | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } { print $2 }'"
syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
                >>> { <<<
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.

After I get the above to work I like to do this and add the field separator.
Code:
dsh -w server1 "kill $(lsof /audit | awk '{print $2}')"

 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. AIX

Trouble formatting egrep command with AWK

Hi, I'm new to scripting and AIX. I'm running the following: lspv | awk '{ print "lspv",$1" | egrep 'PP\|PHYSICAL'; lspv -l",$1 }' Which creates this command: lspv hdisk0 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk0 lspv hdisk1 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk1 Troube is, I need the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cruiser
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Running command inside awk

Hi, I have a awk script to read a CSV file. After reading the values i want to call a executable (nameely call_it) with the values what i read from the scv file. I dont want to use system command inside the awk. Is there any other way to run the executable from the awk script Thanks ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Raghuram.P
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to use same variable value inside as well as outside of the awk command?

Hi Jim, The following script is in working state. But i m having one more problem with awk cmd. Could you tell me how to use any variable inside awk or how to take any variable value outside awk. My problem is i want to maintain one property file in which i am declaring variable value into that... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ganesh Khandare
12 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Trouble with passing Variable from bash to awk gsub command

Would really appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake in this line of code, i've been staring blankly at it trying everything i can think of some time now and coming up with nothing. #!/bin/bash echo "Enter Username" read Username awk -F: -v var=${Username} '/^var:/... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nostyx
9 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Multiple command execution inside awk command during xml parsing

below is the output xml string from some other command and i will be parsing it using awk cat /tmp/alerts.xml <Alert id="10102" name="APP-DS-ds_ha-140018-componentFailure-S" alertDefinitionId="13982" resourceId="11427" ctime="1359453507621" fixed="false" reason="If Event/Log Level(ANY) and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
2 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help in using date command inside awk

Hi All, bash-3.2$ autorep -J BOX_NAME% -l0 | grep BOX_NAME| awk -f awkScript.awk sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file BOX_NAME SU 06/21/2013 03:44:03 06/21/2013 07:46:37 0 #My awkfile { ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ddspark
3 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Grep command inside awk

Hi, I would like to use grep command inside awk. Here is my requirement below : file.txt col1 col2 col3 col 4 col 5 wrxwrx 124 jun 3 Sensex.EMEA wrxwrx 120 jun 4 Emex.US wrxwrx 130 feb 3 passion.AUS wrxwrx 145 feb 9 lession.AUS wrxwrx 130 feb 5 pass.US wrxwrx 130 feb 8... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Balasankar
5 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Command in inside awk statement

Hello can you please help me with below script which is meant to delete clients from multiple netbackup policies I want to run a command insdie awk statement apparelnlty this script is not working for me for i in $( cat clients_list) do bppllist -byclient $i | awk... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sara_84
6 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Trouble with awk command

Hi, I need to read a string with ; separated using loop one filed by one field and perform some operation. Can you please check and let me know how to print command parameterised. key=phani;ravi;kiran number_of_keys=`echo $key|awk '{print NF}' FS=';'` for (( i = 1; i <= $number_of_keys;... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravindra Swan
4 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Trouble using awk command

Hi, I have 2 .txt pads containing data. I need a script which reads content of one .txt file, performs some operations and calculates a number which is stored in a variable. Now , all the content of another .txt pad should be appended to first .txt pad at pre calculated nth line number. ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravindra Swan
4 Replies

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

shtool-path

SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool						SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)

NAME

       shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables

SYNOPSIS

       shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments.  It
       prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -s, --suppress
	   Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.

       -r, --reverse
	   Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.

       -d, --dirname
	   Output the directory name of str.

       -b, --basename
	   Output the base name of str.

       -m, --magic
	   Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".

       -p, --path path
	   Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH.

EXAMPLE

	#   shell script
	awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk`
	perl=`shtool path -m perl`
	cpp=`shtool path -m cpp`
	revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir`

HISTORY

       The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S.  Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken
       over into GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), which(1).

18-Jul-2008							   shtool 2.0.8 						SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:07 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy