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Old 08-23-2011
Using variable inside awk
Hi,

Please help me how to use variables inside awk in code below:

Code:
ll | awk -v "yr=`date '+%Y'`" -v "mnth=`date '+%m'`" -v Jan=1 -v Feb=2 -v Mar=3 -v Apr=4 -v May=5 -v Jun=6 -v Jul=7 -v Aug=8 ' !/^d/ { if(NR>1) {printf "%-29s\t\t%s\t%5s\t\t%s %s,", $9,$1,$5,$`$6`,$7} }'

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 08-23-2011
You already appear to be doing so, but not doing anything with the variables you set. What are you actually trying to do?
# 3  
Old 08-23-2011
Manubatham, per the awk man page, the variables that you supply with the -v arg, are available in the BEGIN section only:
Quote:
-v var=val
--assign var=val
Assign the value val to the variable var, before execution of
the program begins. Such variable values are available to the
BEGIN block of an AWK program.
Here is how you can use it:
Code:
awk -v "Jan=1" 'BEGIN { print Jan }'

This will produce the output - 1, which is the value of the variable Jan.
# 4  
Old 08-23-2011
Hi Corona,

Here you can see that $6 will return the month... that will be in format of Jan, Feb, Mar, or ... Now I want to convert month to numeric. Like 1 for Jan, 2 for Feb, 3 for Mar...so on.

Regards,
Manu
# 5  
Old 08-23-2011
passing -v Jan=1 makes the variable named Jan contain "1". You don't get the string "Jan" anywhere.

How about:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN { split("Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec", MON, "|"); }
{ (rest of your code goes here) }'

That gives you an array MON where MON[1] gets you "Jan", MON[2] gets you "Feb", MON[$6] gets you the name of whatever number $6 is, and so forth.

[edit] Got it backwards. Hmm, thinking on it.
# 6  
Old 08-23-2011
Am I using $Aug in correct way?

Code:
ll | awk -v "yr=`date '+%Y'`" -v "mnth=`date '+%m'`" -v Jan=1 -v Feb=2 -v Mar=3 -v Apr=4 -v May=5 -v Jun=6 -v Jul=7 -v Aug=8 ' !/^d/ { if(NR>1) {printf "%-29s\t\t%s\t%5s\t\t%s %s\n", $9,$1,$5,$Aug,$7} }'

Regards,
Manu
# 7  
Old 08-23-2011
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { split("Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec", MON, "|"); for(N=1; N<=12; N++) I[MON[N]]=N; }
{ (rest of your code goes here) }'

Now you have an array MON where MON[1]="Jan", and an array I where I["Jan"]=1.

---------- Post updated at 12:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:10 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by manubatham20
Am I using $Aug in correct way?
You've already been told "no". $Aug will pick a different field depending on what number Aug is. Variables don't work that way in awk. print Aug; will print 8. Print $Aug will print field number 8, whatever it is. I don't think you can solve your problem with -v since you can't go from a number to a variable name.

You can use a number as an array index, which is what I have done. Try my above solution, which builds arrays out of a string of months.
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