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
You might want to try sth. like this on your way to optimize your script:
Check for the exit code to control further processing.
Hi folks,
I am wondering how to output awk back to a variable.
I am new to Unix/Linux.
I am trying to get rid of a decimal number and put the output back in a variable for further use in the script. here is how I used awk:
var=$1
echo $var |awk '{print $1 *100}' | $var
echo $var
this... (4 Replies)
I have a file which I am processing using awk to spit out the following:
export CLIENT=1 ; export USER=1 ; export METABASE=1 ; export TASK=1 ; export TOTAL=3
What i want to do now is execute that within the script so those variables are available to other commands. I've tried piping the... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to store the output of awk into a variable in a shell script. I can run it successfully from the command line but not from a ksh shell script.
ls -al test.txt | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
returns -rw-r--r--
#!/bin/ksh
perm=$(`ls -al test.txt | grep -v grep | awk... (2 Replies)
Not sure why it is not working the following :
set -- $@
stype ="a"
for shell_args in "$@"
do
$stype=` awk '{print substr ("'"$shell_args"'", 0, 3)}' `
echo $stype
done
Thank you (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Hope someone can help me out here.
I have this BASH script (see below)
My problem lies with the variable path.
The output of the command find will give me several fields. The 9th field is the path. I want to captured that and the I want to filter this to a specific level.
The... (6 Replies)
hi i want to find the size of a folder and assign it to a variable and then compare if it is greater than 1 gb.
i am doin this script, but it is throwing error....
#!/bin/ksh
cd . | du -s | size = awk '{print $1}'
if size >= 112000
then
echo size high
fi
ERROR : (4 Replies)
I have a script whose contents are as below
result= awk 's=100 END {print s }'
echo "The result is" $result
The desired output is
The result is 100
My script is running without exiting and i am also not getting the desired output.
Please help (5 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am trying to get system output to capture inside awk , but not working:
Please advise if this is possible :
I am trying something like this but not working, the output is coming wrong:
echo "" | awk '{d=system ("date") ; print "Current date is:" , d }'
Thanks, (5 Replies)
I am reading an xml file with date tag as <Date>Default</Date> using the below command.
Dt=$(awk -F'' '/<Date>/{print $3}' /home/test/try.xml
and getting the value from the xml file stored in this variable "Dt"
echo $Dt gives me a value. Dt=Default.
Now according to my requirement, If... (2 Replies)
Stumped with the formatting of the awk output when used with variables, e.g.:
awk -F, 'BEGIN {OFS=","} print {$2,$3,$4}' $infile1
produces the desired output (with rows), but when echoing the variable below, the output is one continuous line
var1=$(awk -F, 'BEGIN {OFS=","} print... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
tzselect
TZSELECT(8) Linux System Administration TZSELECT(8)NAME
tzselect - select a timezone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone 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.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
ENVIRONMENT
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/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 timezone TZ.
SEE ALSO tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
2007-05-18 TZSELECT(8)