Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello:

You guys were able to solve a similar problem for me yesterday...I was hoping I could get some assistance with this one as well.

I'm writing a bourne shell script in an old machine running TOPIX. Here's what the script looks like:

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LOG=/archive/logs/sys/alarm.log
today=`date +'%m/%d/%y %T'`

cat $LOG | grep SWI100 | sort | uniq -c | awk -v today="$today" '{print today "MSP\t" "Rich\t" $3 $12 "\t" $1}'

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I was able to get this to work yesterday in a Solaris box using /usr/xpg4/bin/awk instead of regular awk. However, I cannot do that in the TOPIX box as it does not have /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.

Of course, the script is not working properly (I do not get my timestamp)and I get the following error, followed by the remaining information (which is correct)

awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is today=09/16/04 >>> 13: <<<
awk: bailing out at source line 1
MSP Rich SWI110CLLICODE=OCQNVAXADS0 2

I checked man pages (in the TOPIX machine), and did not see anything about the -v option. I have tried every variation of syntax that I can think of.

Any suggestions??

-cd

I have no clue what TOPIX is but see if the nawk command has the -v option - nawk should work like awk.

TOPIX is a UNIX compliant operating system...stands for Transaction Oriented UNIX. It is almost identical to standard UNIX.

-cd

The RTM idea was :
Do you have NAWK on your system?

I do not have NAWK on my system.

It's hard to guess what might work on this topix system. Maybe this...

cat $LOG | grep SWI100 | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print'"$today"' "MSP\t" "Rich\t" $3 $12 "\t" $1}'

Get the quoting exactly as I have it. You may need to cut and paste. Even then, there is no guarantee.

try this, perhaps it will work :

awk -v today="$today" '{printf today" MSP\t" "Rich\t" $3 $12 "\t" $1}'