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Old 01-02-2012
setting up a flag inside awk

Hi unix gurus....

i need to set a flag inside awk. i tried many methods for that but couldn't succeed Smilie
like
Code:
echo "flag= " $flag
echo "flag= " ${flag}

and so...but not able to show the flag. help me out.
i'm using a if condition inside awk... help me out with correct syntax to set a flag and use it so that i will be able to return a value back to main script.......
thanks,
# 2  
Old 01-02-2012
Not clear. Do you mean you are trying to pass a variable to awk?

Code:
awk 'BEGIN { print flag }' flag="1"

#or

awk -v glag="1" 'BEGIN { print flag }'

--ahamed
# 3  
Old 01-02-2012
thanks for your reply....but solved just before that..... Smilie
# 4  
Old 01-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by sukhdip
thanks for your reply....but solved just before that..... Smilie
Appreciate if you could explain what was the issue and how you solved it. It will help others in the future.

--ahamed
# 5  
Old 01-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
Appreciate if you could explain what was the issue and how you solved it. It will help others in the future.

--ahamed
hey Sorry, was busy, so replying late. Yeah I'd love to share that.
Just set a flag. Though directly were not able to set a flag. So whole command inside the flag. further took the flag value inside another var and cut the first field (as i need this one only) and used it further.may be it is the long way i used(there could be many ways) but it solved my problem Smilie
Here its:
Code:
flag=""
flag=$( awk -F"|" -v var="$Property_Value" 'BEGIN{n=split(var,a,",")} NR > 1 { for(i=1;i<=n;i++) { if($a[i] ~ /^ *$/){printf("1") }} }' $file)
 echo "flag = "$flag
 var1=$(echo $flag | cut -c1)

Regards,
# 6  
Old 01-31-2012
One can also try this Smilie

Code:
 
eval $(awk -F"|" -v var="$Property_Value" 'BEGIN{n=split(var,a,",")} NR > 1 { for(i=1;i<=n;i++) { if($a[i] ~ /^ *$/){printf("FLAG=1") }} }' $file)

If you do eval, then FLAG=1 will evaluated as shell command and FLAG will then become a variable.

This method using Eval and Awkis quite handy when you are trying to generate or evaluate variables that may get use by Shell.

So soimething like this:

Code:
eval $(awk '{print "X1="$1; print "X2="$2;}' someinputfile)

will give you two shell includable variable X1 and X2...

Last edited by knight_eon; 01-31-2012 at 04:27 AM.. Reason: Thanks itkamaraj for pointing this out :)
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Old 01-31-2012
@knight_eon,

use the [ code ] tag, while posting the data or script
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