Shell Programming and Scripting

Try nawk instead of awk

@chubler: I dont have the nawk executable, I see gawk. I do not have the rights to install the rpm too.

Well, I'm at a loss, I don't believe anything in the awk script is non POSIX. Perhaps your awk is fairly old. What OS are you on? Is gawk throwing the same error?

The version of linux I have is

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 5). Gawk also throws the same error.

I suspect you created the file on windows (eg with notepad) and then copied it to linux. Try dos2unix cpinclude on your linux platform, this should sort things out (windows puts extra \r on the end of each line and this isn't compatable with linux.

This could also be why the scripts offered by others here haven't worked out for you.

@chubler: You are right, dos2unix worked and the script does work now. I did create on the windows side for this one. Not for the other ones though. They still seem to have the problem. Thanks Bud.

One thing I found in my conditions are that the include statements can have statements as below which seems to crap out.

.include '/net/proj/1.txt' section

It says "unexpected EOF while looking for matching ' "

Also, I might have include statements within the file that is copied from the first include statement. May be I am asking for too much

Update now ignores anything else on the line after the closing " or '

No this is quite easy, you will just have to watch out for files that include each other as the script will never stop spawning more copies of it's self!

Code:

/^[ \t\.]*include ["']/ {
     file=$0
     sub("[^\"']*[\"']", "",file)
     sub("[\"'].*$","",file)
     system("cp " file " ./temp ; awk -f cpinclude " file)
}