Trouble with passing Variable from bash to awk gsub command
Would really appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake in this line of code, i've been staring blankly at it trying everything i can think of some time now and coming up with nothing.
Have already tried...
Desired output is to have the script replace "foo" with "bar" in field 2 of FILENAME only on lines beginning with Username entered into read.
After this step the idea is to replace "foo" with ANY data that's in the specified Field, and the Field number to also be specified by the user via a read command.
So if anyone knows a simpler command for doing that all in 1 go that'd be much appreciated too.
Thanks for the help but that doesn't produce any output for me.
do you not have to -v and assign the shell variable as an awk variable before using it with an awk command?
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Originally Posted by ni2
Here is what I tried.
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This is what I tested with. Maybe you could give a sample of the result you are getting.
I just created the exact same files you have used and it works perfectly, yet there's no difference i can see in my practical file...
two seconds and i'll run some more tests...
EDIT:
This will teach me for trying to write scripts after being awake for 24 hours.
My shell variable was named $UserName
the variable i was trying to use was name $Username
simple idiotic mistake.
Thanks for your help, your last post really made me go back and look at other things it could be once i knew the syntax was already correct.
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One more thing before you dissappear.
is this possible to do with $var2 specifiying the field to replace. if the input at read FieldNo is a number, for example "2"
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