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This is where my smbmount proposal comes into play. You smbmount the remote resource and - voila - all your unix commands will work.

This is what I first thought of, but I'm not sure the result of...

Please always post what Operating System and version you are running and what Shell you use. There is so much variation.
Please also post the Operating System and version of the remote (Microsoft?)...

Did this script ever work? AFAIK smbclient needs commands from stdin, so a "here document" might work. Anyhow, the shell is NOT reading those lines after the smbclient command, and thus no variable...

It so weird that if command is not working there...

and i am doubtful about working of while...

still try this...


cd $dir_name
var=$(echo $?)
echo $var
while [ "$var" == 0 ]; do
echo...

We can also check for the presence of directory ..


if [[ -d $dir_name ]]
then
#do what you want here..
fi

Unfortunately I don't have an answer at hand, as a failing cd will complain likecd \Josef\: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND but evaluating this within a script is difficult.
Why don't you smbmount...

Only 2 is not failure. Check here (https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/5020-all-about-exit-code.html).

Check last command status by $?

echo "$?"


0 - Success
2 - Fail

Using awk, try


cat input.file | awk ' BEGIN {print "Column1;Column2;Column3;Column4;Column5" } { print substr($0,1,6) ";" substr($0,7,5) ";" $2 ";" substr($0,26,6) ";" substr($0,7,5) ";" $2...

Does it have to be AWK? perl -ple 's/\b\d{6}/$&;/g;s/\s+/;/g' file

awk '{ print substr($1, 1, 6), substr($1, 7, 11) , $2 , substr($3, 1, 6), substr($3, 7, 11) }' OFS=\; test_temp

awk '{sub(/.{6}/,"&"OFS,$1);sub(/.{6}/,"&"OFS,$3)}1' OFS=";" file