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# 1  
Old 01-06-2011
Combining awk statements

I have a pretty simple script below:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

for i in *.cfg
do
temp=`awk '/^InputDirectory=/' ${i}`
input_dir=`echo ${temp} | awk '{ print substr( $0, 16) }'`
echo ${input_dir}
done

As you can see its opening each cfg file and searching for the line that has "InputDirectory=" setting that to the temp var and then performing a substring to get the directory path set.

This seems to work fine, but just wondering if there might be a way to combine the 2 lines where awk is used or if there might a simpler solution.

thanks
# 2  
Old 01-06-2011
How does the lines with "InputDirectory=" look like in the config files?
# 3  
Old 01-06-2011
IMO it could be shortened to:
Code:
for i in *.cfg
do
  awk '/^InputDirectory=/{print substr($0,16)}' "$i"
done

or if you do not have a massive number of .cfg files (much faster):
Code:
awk '/^InputDirectory=/{print substr($0,16)}' *.cfg

or
Code:
awk 'sub(/^InputDirectory=/,x)' *.cfg

or
Code:
sed -n 's/^InputDirectory=//p' *.cfg

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# 4  
Old 01-06-2011
thanks Scrutinizer. your solution is perfect.

Franklin, the line just looks like /path/to/directory
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