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A short but proper description the entire situation (how the script is called, what the positional parameters stand for, how parfile and test_10062019.par relate) would help people understand the problem and help you get faster and better answers. Meaningful indentation would improve readability and understandibility of your code.

Use the correct mechanism to convey a shell variable's contents into an awkscript, like

Code:

awk -vPWD=$vpd '/appdbinstall/ {$0=$0;for (i=1;i<NF;i++)t=t ;$0=$0 "/" PWD}1' file

You might want to try sth. like this on your way to optimize your script:

Code:

awk '
NR == 1         {PWD = $0
                 next
                }
/appdbinstall/  {$NF = $NF "/" PWD
                 CHD = 1
                }
1
END             {if (CHD) print "appdinstall exists." > "/dev/stderr"
                 exit (!CHD)
                }
'  encrypted.pwd test_10062019.par

Check for the exit code to control further processing.

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TZSELECT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       TZSELECT(8)

NAME

       tzselect - select a time zone

SYNOPSIS

       tzselect

DESCRIPTION

       The  tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard
       output.	The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.

       All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       AWK    Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).

       TZDIR  Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo).

FILES

       TZDIR/iso3166.tab
	      Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

       TZDIR/zone.tab
	      Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.

       TZDIR/TZ
	      Time zone data file for time zone TZ.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

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