Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi ,

the fog is fulling my brain after holidays , somebody can help me ?

I have a file in input like that :

toto
tata
tutu

and trying with awk to insert the compete file string as :

/dir1/dir2/toto
/dir1/dir2/tata
/dir1/dir2/tutu

i used to write :
awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\"} {print "/dir1/dir2"/"$3}'
where i needed field number 3 in the line but here i got no separator , i tried directly $0 or $1 but it fails.
Normally it would be easier !!!

Thanks in advance

Christian

awk '{ print "/dir1/dir2/"$0 }' file > newfile

Cheers
ZB

Thanks ,

well i used that and it works but in fact it's a little more complicated , i use another variable $REP :

awk '{ print "/dir1/dir2/"$REP"/"$0 }' file > newfile

and it fails with :

awk: Field $() is not correct.

The input line number is 1.
The source line number is 1.

the system doesn't understand the variable $REP

regards
christian

You can assign the variable when you invoke awk, e.g.

Code:

REP=foo
awk -v rep=$REP '{ print "/dir1/dir2/"rep"/"$0 }' file > newfile

Cheers
ZB

Thanks for your help , just what i needed !!

Christian