Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

Hope all the expert can help me in this situation.

Let say I have one file with multiple record like below:

[10001]
NAME=FRAGMENT
LANGUAGE=1
DIALECT=0
GENDER=NONE
FILE=TEST1
DIRECTORY=D:/DETAILS/1/0/test1.txt
END

[10002]
NAME=FRAGMENT
LANGUAGE=1
DIALECT=0
GENDER=NONE
FILE=TEST2
DIRECTORY=
END

[10003]
NAME=FRAGMENT
LANGUAGE=1
DIALECT=0
GENDER=NONE
FILE=TEST3
DIRECTORY=
END

For each record, I need to generate the path for DIRECTORY where,

- D:/DETAILS/ is fixed
- 1 is taken from LANGUAGE=1
- 0 is taken from DIALECT=0
- test1 is taken from FILE=TEST1
- test1 must be SMALL LETTER

Since in the file there are huge amount of records,so I think may be can use script to generate the path for each record. But getting stuck for the script now. Please advise.

Thank you so much.

Best Regards,
Shirley

Show what script have you prepared so far.

Try:

Code:

awk ' /DIRECTORY/ {print $1"=D:/DETAILS/"a["LANGUAGE"]"/"a["DIALECT"]"/"tolower(a["FILE"]);next}a[$1]=$2{}1' FS='=' sourceFile

Hi Klashxx,

I get the below error when execute the command:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

Try to solved it many times already but still getting the same error. Please advise.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Shirley

Solaris box??

Great code.Can you please say what this part of the code is doing?
a[$1]=$2{}1

With Regards
Dileep Pattayath

Try out this !

nawk -F"=" '/DIRECTORY/ {print $1"=D:/DETAILS/"a["LANGUAGE"]"/"a["DIALECT"]"/"tolower(a["FILE"]);next}a[$1]=$2{}1' file.txt