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Old 05-17-2011
[SOLVED] Help with awk script line
Hello,

A portion of a script I am writing is supposed to create a text file that outputs lines of the following format:

Code:
url = "ftp://www.example.com/directory/awk_output"

My awk line needs to print the base URL directory and then add a file name to the end of the URL, namely "$1". My current command line looks like this:

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/" $1\"}' tmp.txt > list.txt

It outputs an error as follows:

Code:
awk: {print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/" $1\"}
awk:                                                                             ^ backslash not last character on line

I know that the $1 correctly adds to the end of the URL if it is all by itself, but adding the format of url = "URL" causes problems because of having to use the backslash and use literal quote marks. Any help with getting this to work would be appreciated.
Last edited by meridionaljet; 05-17-2011 at 12:46 AM..
# 2  
Old 05-17-2011
Try this

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/"$1"\""}' tmp.txt > list.txt

regards,
Ahamed
Last edited by ahamed101; 05-17-2011 at 12:37 AM.. Reason: Corrected the code
# 3  
Old 05-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
Try this

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/\" "$1}' tmp.txt > list.txt

regards,
Ahamed
Thanks for replying. Your code outputs this:

Code:
url = "ftp://www.example.com/directory" $1

What I need is this:

Code:
url = "ftp://www.example.com/directory/$1"

After playing around some more I have gotten it very close with this command:

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goeseast-lzw/caribbean/ir4/" $1,"\""}' tmp.txt > list.txt

...which outputs this:

Code:
url = "ftp://www.example.com/directory/$1 "

Which is very close to what I need, but I can't get rid of that white space between the URL and the final quotation mark. I haven't entered any white space in the awk command that I can see, so I'm unsure how to get rid of it in the output.
# 4  
Old 05-17-2011
I have edited the code. Try that

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/"$1"\""}' tmp.txt > list.txt

regards,
Ahamed
# 5  
Old 05-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
I have edited the code. Try that

Code:
awk '{print "url = \"ftp://www.example.com/directory/"$1"\""}' tmp.txt > list.txt

regards,
Ahamed
That did it. Thanks a bunch.
# 6  
Old 05-17-2011
And the reason why you got a space in your code is because of ,(comma)
, acts as a field separator which is space in this case

regards,
Ahamed
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