Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

In a script like :

job_date=....

ls -l 2>/dev/null |
awk -v var =$job_date '
/Name\.Version\.[0-9]+\.xml$/ {

How can i include a script variable job_date store in "var" in the pattern "/Name\.Version\.[0-9]+\.xml$/"

Thanks in advance

just use it in the awk where ever you want
ex:-

Code:

($0 ~ var) && /pattern/{do something}

BR

Thanks ahmad.diab,


I want this variable in between the Name and version as shown above..

How to go about that

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ex:
Name\.(here comes the variable "var") Version\.[0-9]+\.xml$/

Code:

awk -v var=$job_date '
BEGIN { pattern = "Name\\." var "\\.Version\\.[0-9]+\\.xml$" }
$0 ~ pattern {'

Jean-Pierre.

Hi Jean,
i used your code in my script which was also told by you : but the files are not matching the patterns and not getting printed
ls -l 2>/dev/null |
awk -v var=$TOTAL -v var2=$job_date '
BEGIN { pattern = "Name\\." var "\\.Version\\.[0-9]+\\.xml$" }
$0 ~ pattern {
sub(/\.[^.]*$/, "", $NF); # Removes extension
FileCount++;
FileName[FileCount] = $NF;
FileSize[FileCount] = $5;
}
END {
print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";
print "<AuditFile Version=\"2.0\">";
print "<Header>";
printf "<BusinessDate>%s</BusinessDate>\n",var2
print "<SubmissionSequenceNr>1</SubmissionSequenceNr>"
print "<SubmissionVersionNr>4</SubmissionVersionNr>"
print "<AdHoc>N</AdHoc>"
print "</Header>"
printf "<UnitOfWork UnitSequenceNr=\"1\" FileCount=\"%d\" ArchiveID=\"106B\">\n",var

for (f=1; f<=FileCount; f++) {
print "<DataFile>";
printf "<FileName>%s</FileName>\n", FileName[f];
printf "<FileSize>%d</FileSize>\n", FileSize[f];
print "</DataFile>";
}

}
'

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What it the name of the files that you want to proceed ?
Gives us an example.


Jean-Pierre.

Name of the file will be like:

FileName.Version.JobDate.SerialNumber.Constant.xml

Now all the things can be hardcoded, but only Jobdate will vary with time..

This Date is extracted and stored in a variable outside awk in the same script..

I have to use that variable inside awk to make a pattern out of which main xml is getting generated

Please help..