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Old 01-12-2009
Appending to EOF using AWK
In a previous post I needed to walk through a list of files. This works fine, but when I attempt to use the nawk line (below) I can only write to first file that's found. The files I'm trying to write to (${target_dir}${product}.html) already exist and are created by another part of my script that is working correctly.

Any idea why I can't append new information to these files?

Here's the troublesome code:
Code:
 
echo '## ' $target_dir
find $target_dir -type d -print | while read products # process all directories
do
  product=`basename $products`
  testdir=$target_dir$product
  if [ -d ${testdir} ]; then
    echo ' ## '$product
    nawk -v "PRODUCTIN=${product}" -f footer.awk >> ${target_dir}${product}.html
  fi
done

########

The footer.awk files looks like this (and the functions productdesc and print_line work correctly):
Code:
#! /bin/nawk -f
BEGIN {}
{}
 
##Print the footer info to the output file
END{
print_line("</ul>")
print_line("</div>")
print_line("<div class=\"navfooter\">")
print_line("<p>")
print_line("<em>"productdesc(PRODUCTIN,PRODNAME)"</em><br>")
print_line("<span style=\"font-size:80%\">Last updated: 4 Jan 2009<br>")
print_line("Copyright &copy; SomeCorporation<br>")
print_line("All rights reserved.</span></p>")
print_line("</body>")
print_line("</html>")
}

# 2  
Old 01-13-2009
Ah yes...
The entire while read... do loop is being fed from standard input. nawk also expects standard input and will gobble anything still there. So the first read succeeds, then nawk gobbles the rest of find's output. Yeah!

Just and
Code:
 </dev/null

to the end of the nawk line, and nawk will never see the output from find.
 
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