Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying the following script using nawk and failed to call variable inside the script.

echo "Enter the absolute path of XML location for respective billcycle"
read xml_location
grep "string to find:" abcd.log|cut -d '/' -f12|nawk '{print $xml_location $1}' > redirected_log.log

Please suggest how can i use the variable $xml_location inside nawk

Thanks
Nadvi

Needless use of grep and cut with awk. I don't know how your file looks like but something like this should be suffice:

Code:

nawk -F"/" '/string to find/{print var $12}' var="$xml_location" abcd.log > redirected_log.log

In your solution the use of the variable should look like:

Code:

grep "string to find:" abcd.log|cut -d '/' -f12|nawk '{print var $1}' var="$xml_location" > redirected_log.log

Regards

Not being a scripting guru I would have done:

Code:

grep "string to find:" abcd.log|cut -d '/' -f12|nawk '{print '$xml_location' $1}'

but the nawk solution is of course a lot more elegant.