awk in sh and bash works differently???

[rnbwkat]

Have a problem with a simple awk script that continues to give me the classic "field $() is not correct" and the kicker is that this worked fine under ksh on HP, but under bash and AIX it fails - help??

script:

VARLVL_ID="^M^L"
VLENGTH=0
FTP_AWK='
BEGIN{
VARLVL_ID=v;
VLENGTH=l;
VLIFOUND=0;
}{
if ( substr($0,1,VLENGTH) == VARLVL_ID && VLIFOUND == 0 ) {
$PRINT "";
VLIFOUND=1;
}
else if ( substr($0,1,VLENGTH) == VARLVL_ID && VLIFOUND == 1 )
$PRINT "^L";
else if ( substr($0,1,2) == "^M^M" )
$PRINT "";
else
$PRINT $0;
}'


inside of bash script:

cat ${FILENAME} | awk -v v="$VARLVL_ID" -v l="$VLENGTH" "${FTP_AWK}" > ${NEWFILENAME}.ftp

 

[Annihilannic]

I don't understand how it worked anywhere... are you certain it wasn't modified? All occurrences of $PRINT should just be print.

Annihilannic.

 

[rnbwkat]

so sorry all - I am an idiot. Sometimes you stare at things much too long. In my haste to fix things - well, the print statements in the ksh script were replaced with $PRINT and then an assignment of echo/printf in various places to fix things. Somehow the awk print got replaced as well and just got overlooked. Yes, when the $PRINT was put back to print in the awk script it worked. I found it about 5 minutes after posting this and don't see a way to delete a post, only yo reply to it..

 

[Annihilannic]

We learn more from our moments of idiocy than our moments of brilliance...

Annihilannic.

 

[p5wizard]

rnbwkat, only way to delete a post/entire thread is to use the link:

Inappropriate post?
If so, Red Flag it!

found at the bottom of any post, That way you can send a message to the webmaster explaining that you want the post or the entire thread removed and why...

But good for you you found the solution yourself.


HTH,

p5wizard