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Old 09-08-2008
find | gawk --- NOT WORKING
Hi every1Smilie

I have a problem with find and Pipe to gawk.

Find -name '*.txt' -> works fine.. Gives all the txt file under home directory and sub directories



But when I use it like this (see below).

Find -name '*.txt' | gawk -F '\t' "script" Smilie


It doesn't work.

Can you pls help?

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 09-08-2008
What is the desired output?

Regards
# 3  
Old 09-08-2008
Hi,

I have large number of txt files (some with same name) located under my home directory and subdirectories --

All files are under this directory (Administrator/home/acokayan) -- in cygwin

What I need is:



1-Find any txt files under home directory and subdirectories
2-then pipe these files to this script " gawk -F '\t' '$8 == "HP" || $8 == "IBM" || $8 == "Dell" {print $1, $4, $8 }'"
# 4  
Old 09-08-2008
The find command doesn't have an output with tab seperated fields.
What is the output of your find command and what is the desired output?
# 5  
Old 09-08-2008
The find command should find all the txt files .

Then use gwak script to read every txt files (output from find) and print column 1,4 8 only if column 8 has the following values "HP" OR "IBM" OR "DELL"

thanks
# 6  
Old 09-08-2008
Please post the output of your find command and the desired ouput.
# 7  
Old 09-08-2008
Thanks for your response.

This works fine
Gawk -F '\t' '$8 == "HP" || $8 == "IBM" || $8 == "Dell" {print $1, $4, $8 }' c:\cygwin\home\acokayan\export\/*.txt

The only problem that I have is that not all txt files are under export directory.

Some of it located under export\Pctype2007 or export\Pctype2005..and so on...

So is there anything we could do to this code "/*.txt" which could reference it to all other subdirectories...

thanks for your help
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