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Old 05-10-2013
Trying to execute a expression in a variable
Hi

i tried to execute a below script but it is giving execution error


Code:
rec=ABC,1234,55.00
Colno=2
coldel=,

fd='"'$coldel'"'
fprint="'"'{print$'$colno'}'"'"

colsyn=`echo "echo "$rec "| awk -F"$fd $fprint`

echo column syntax is $colsyn

colrec=`colsyn`

echo column is $colrec

================================

am getting syntax echo as

echo ABC,1234,55.00 | awk -F"," '{print$2}'

my expected output is

column is 1234

Please help

Thanks in advance
Last edited by joeyg; 05-10-2013 at 08:37 AM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data inside CodeTags
# 2  
Old 05-10-2013
try

Code:
echo "ABC,1234,55.00" | awk -F, '{print$2}'

# 3  
Old 05-10-2013
I cant able to hard code i need to execute from the user defined variable,

i tried but it is not working
# 4  
Old 05-10-2013
What kind of a useless jugglery is this? Smilie
You may try:
Code:
colsyn=`echo "$rec"|awk -F"$coldel" '{print $colno}' colno="$colno"`

# 5  
Old 05-10-2013
Code:
rec=ABC,1234,55.00
Colno=2
coldel=,

fd=$coldel
fprint=$(echo "'{print \$$Colno }'")

eval echo "echo $rec | awk -F\"$fd\" $fprint"

This User Gave Thanks to pravin27 For This Post:
ragu.selvaraj
# 6  
Old 05-10-2013
again am getting the expression syntax error

---------- Post updated at 07:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:57 AM ----------

thank you pravin it worked,,, thanks again
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