Shell Programming and Scripting

What if there are multiple /usr/bin/whatever lines?

The awk line will find all of them. It starts at the top of the file, finds each line containing the string "/usr/bin/whatever" (without quotes), and for each one found, it evaluates whether it has # in front. Multiple lines aren't a problem.

Hi all again

On a Solaris machine:

#awk '$0 ~ /\/usr/bin\/whatever/ { if ( match($0, "^#") ) { print "line is commented" } else { print "line is not commented" } }' filename

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


On a Redhat machine:

awk '$0 ~ /\/usr/bin\/whatever/ { if ( match($0, "^#") ) { print "line is commented" } else { print "line is not commented" } }' filename
awk: cmd. line:1: $0 ~ /\/usr/sbin\/whatever/ { if ( match($0, "^#") ) { print "line is commented" } else { print "line is not commented" } }
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ backslash not last character on line


any idea?

thank you,