I am not totally sure what you want to do and maybe othere people did not quite understand it neither so that could be the reason because so many look in but do not answer.
Whatever, there are some lines, I see no sense in:
You compare 2 files to get the difference and getting the difference, you do nothing with that list. The output is not used any further and also the $? is not worth anything since awk will nearly always give you a 0 back, no matter if there is a difference or not.
I recommend you do a simple diff instead and check it for it's $? to notice if there is a difference or not. If you really need to process the difference list, you might use a simple grep -f against those 2 files so you can a) check it's result with $? and b) if you need the output, process/parse it.
Also your function printerExists() is not closed with a } which will produce an error, maybe just a typo.
So far I got the impression you want to create those print queues that do not exist on some hosts yet.
Then you might want to write your printerExists() so that it can parse a) a printer name, that you might already have gotten by checking which do not exist, b) an action like [add|delete].
Also all those variable inside the function have not been filled with usable values, which could have happened outside this function or in another function so you can hand them over to printerExists() as parameters too.
Maybe get a clear picture of what you want to do 1st and write the script according to that and/or tell what exactly is not working currently.
By taking a glimpse at it there should be several things that might not work, like stated above.
The awk was too compare the two files from a local server and a remote server.Then i added this to get the printer names the two files
The function was an example, i wanted to use in order to delete,amend or recreate the printers in that order, which i found when doing some research.
I am still stuck with the function to the above
Yes it is true that i want to delete,amend or recreate a printer that is not on the server.
The function I know its not correct as i am stil very much a junior when it comes to shell scripting, functions etc
But i do know the lpadmin commands i will use to create the printers
Now too figure out, how to set them in a function like you suggested.
I do not not know how parse the variable in a function?????
I agree, the script fragment contains too many syntax and apparent logic errors to follow what the O/P intended.
The (apparently pointless) function starts but does not end. There is no closing } . There is however a spurious "fi" on the last line.
The function itself is never called and I can't see a place where a list of printers is processed.
On the logic front the script appears to be intended to delete all printers on the home machine and create all printers to match the remote computer. Was this the intention?
On the command logic don't you have to issue the sequence: lpshut (and wait until it stops), lpadmin -x, lpsched when deleting a printer?
An example of the printer lists from each computer showing which ones should be deleted and which ones should be created would be useful.
No i don't have to do a lpshut, as we use the cups software...
The diffs.txt file displays the printers i need to amend.
in this instance the printers differ by the IP address, that will be the reason to delete then recreate it.
Ok here a basic snippet which you might just want to adopt into your script, supposing you already have the name of the printer to be created, deleted or altered etc.:
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