Automated awk script not working

[richclever]

I have an email that come in every day and need to pass it to an awk script. I have a filter that picks up the email, and it should then process the file and output to another one.

The problem I have is that it is just adding it to the end of the awk script I have.

The script looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {
OUTPUTFILE="/path_to_ouputfile/currency_rates.dat"
print strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S",systime()) > OUTPUTFILE
}
$1 ~ /^(USD|GBP|EUR)$/ {
print $1 " " $(NF-1) >> OUTPUTFILE
}

Does anyone have anyidea what is going wrong.

Thanks

Rich

 

[vgersh99]

is your /usr/bin/awk is actually linked/is gawk?

"strftime" is not part of stock awk [at least on Solaris].

What OS are you on?

if the "print strftime(...)" fails, all you print's will be APPENDED [not appended to a truncated file].

vlad
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[futurelet]

Vlad is right. systime() and strftime() are in neither awk nor mawk. Your program requires Gawk.

 

[PHV]

You may try this program:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
OUTPUTFILE="/path_to_ouputfile/currency_rates.dat"
"date \"+%d/%m/%Y %T\"" | getline a
print a > OUTPUTFILE
}
$1 ~ /^(USD|GBP|EUR)$/ {
print $1 " " $(NF-1) > OUTPUTFILE
}

Hope This Helps, PH.
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