No surprise. Shells don't expand variables enclosed in single quotes. Use awk's standard mechanism to convey variables: the -v option. Like
BTW, it may not seem the wisest use of resources to open, work through, and close the file for every single username in your array. Better do it all in one tool, e.g. awk, like e.g.
Hi,
I have a situation where I have to specify a different value to an awk command, I beleive i have the gist of this done, however I am not able to get this correct. Here is what I have so far
echo $id
065859555
This value occurs in a "pipe" delimited file in postition 8. Hence I would... (1 Reply)
I'm writing a bash script, and I am having trouble with this line:
awk '{print "url = \"http://www.example.com/directory/$type/"$1"\""}' input.file > output.file
Within the URL being printed, I wish the value of the variable "$type" to be printed, after being read from user input from the... (2 Replies)
I have a log file that has certain fields that I want to evaluate, and depending on the value in those fields, I want to put the value of a different field in that line in a particular variable that I'll use later on down the log file. Sort of like setting a switch to change what I do with a bunch... (5 Replies)
I am writing a script where I need awk to test if two columns are the same and shell to do something if they are or are not.
Here is the code I'm working with:
@ test = 0
...
test = `awk '{if($1!=$2) print 1; else print 0}' time_test.tmp`
#time_test.tmp holds two values separated by a space... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I extracted a list of files in a directory with the command ls . However this is not my computer, so the ls functionality has been revamped so that it gives the filesizes in front like this :
This is the output of ls command : I stored the output in a file filelist
1.1M... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
My oracle procedure returns more than one value.
i need to get one value at a time upto ending value ina shell script.
Please help me..... (9 Replies)
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I need to post-process some data files which have variable (and periodic) number of fields. For example, I need to square (data -> data*data) the folowing data file: -5.34281E-28 -3.69822E-29 8.19128E-29 9.55444E-29 8.16494E-29 6.23125E-29
4.42106E-29 2.94592E-29 1.84841E-29 ... (5 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a txt file containing millions of lines. Below is the example:
{tx:be} head -50 file.txt
Instr1: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Instr1:... (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a script which assign awk output to shell variable. current it uses two awk command to assign value to two variables. I want to use one command to assign two values to two variables. I tried the code, but it does't work. kindly provide your suggestion.
current code... (2 Replies)