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shell while loop broken after using AWK
Dear PH, Thanks to your reply, the program works much better. The loop continues as I wanted. But the out puts are not quite right: The line read is "/u/wx52bh/tmp/grads/get_time.gsf" I wish to get two line outputs cdir=/u/wx52bh/tmp/grads fnm =get_time.gsf But what I got is cdir= fnm... -
shell while loop broken after using AWK
#!/bin/sh while read x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 nc do eval "$(awk -v string="$nc" 'BEGIN {num=split(string,a,"/")} {len=length(string)} {lenx=length(a[num])} {printf "cdir=%s\n", substr(string,1,len-lenx-1)} END {printf "fnm=%s\n", a[num]}' )" echo 'nc='$nc' cdir='$cdir' fnm='$fnm done <...
