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# 1  
Old 11-12-2011
Power function for variable files
hi all
this is my function

Code:
#! /bin/sh
awk '/ Type/ { print "m;" $4 } /IDf/ {print $3 } /IuSac/ { print $3 } /IuSac/ { print $1 }' / IBM.txt |tr '\n' ';'| perl -pi -e 's/;m//g'|cut -d ";" -f 2-5 ' >> 2m

1) i wanna make it to save output of awk in a file named by date in order not to overwrite nor put it on same file ( big size problem ) not 2m

2) im working in IBM.txt file in /company/IBM.txt this directory has IBM1.txt
IBM2.txt and so on ......
so i wanna make file field in awk to be variable for example to get *.txt to get anyfile named ,,,,, . txt in company directory





thanks alot
Last edited by teefa; 11-13-2011 at 08:48 AM.. Reason: wrong formate & no reply
# 2  
Old 11-14-2011
Teefa,

Can you provide some sample input, desired output, and what you think your 'function' is trying to do?
# 3  
Old 11-14-2011
Code:
the awk is getting the fields after print in the lines containing the /  / word 
tr here to make them in records
perl here as identifier 
cut to get specific fields

Code:
1-here the script will be saved in a file named 2m ................... i wanna it to be (DD/MM)/m   for example to save file by name of its date every day save in a new file

Code:
2-here infile name IBM.txt in directory company 
its path is /company/IBM.txt 
in this directory there is alot of txt files (IBM1.txt , IBM2.txt , IBM3.txt ,.....so on )
i wanna take all files .txt in a directory and make this script run for it to be saved in output file

At the end i wanna say whatever any awk script can be put up
Code:
awk ' /type/ { print $0} ' /IBM.txt >> 2m 

i wanna output named by date every day 
awk ................/ *.txt  in the directory mentioned

thanks alot Smilie Smilie Smilie Smilie
# 4  
Old 11-15-2011
And from what I can tell, you are using four programs to do the work of just one - awk or perl. Can you please provide a sample of the input and an example of the desired output, so I can at least figure out if what you wrote does what you intend.
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