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Old 07-20-2011
User defined functions in awk

Hi;
Is der ne to to use user defined functions for the values in awk

Code:
find $1 -type f -ls | nawk '{{print "|"$3"|"$5"|"$6"|"$8"|"$9"|"$10"|"} for(i=11;i<=NF;i++){printf("%s",$i)}}'

In above command i want to append some values returned by user functions on line.

thnks;
ajay

Last edited by pludi; 07-20-2011 at 09:31 AM..
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Old 07-20-2011
Not sure what you mean.

You can pass values to awk and then you can use them inside.

something like this:

Code:
 
awk -v v1=function_return '{ use here v1 }' input_file

If it does not help, please post sample input and expected output.
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