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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need date in awk (Part II) Post 55670 by cdunavent on Thursday 16th of September 2004 01:19:59 PM
Old 09-16-2004
need date in awk (Part II)

Hello:

You guys were able to solve a similar problem for me yesterday...I was hoping I could get some assistance with this one as well.

I'm writing a bourne shell script in an old machine running TOPIX. Here's what the script looks like:

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LOG=/archive/logs/sys/alarm.log
today=`date +'%m/%d/%y %T'`

cat $LOG | grep SWI100 | sort | uniq -c | awk -v today="$today" '{print today "MSP\t" "Rich\t" $3 $12 "\t" $1}'

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I was able to get this to work yesterday in a Solaris box using /usr/xpg4/bin/awk instead of regular awk. However, I cannot do that in the TOPIX box as it does not have /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.

Of course, the script is not working properly (I do not get my timestamp)and I get the following error, followed by the remaining information (which is correct)

awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is today=09/16/04 >>> 13: <<<
awk: bailing out at source line 1
MSP Rich SWI110CLLICODE=OCQNVAXADS0 2

I checked man pages (in the TOPIX machine), and did not see anything about the -v option. I have tried every variation of syntax that I can think of.

Any suggestions??

-cd
 

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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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