Calling a simple print function

[madasafish]

I want tbe able to call a nawk function that will print out a set of lines. The first time the function
is called it will print to the screen. The second time it is called I will call the funtion with a ">" at the end
to re-direct output to a file. I appreciate I could repeat all the lines with the ">" but cant help thinking
there must be a better way of doing this in Awk/Nawk
I have no problem dong this in "ksh" but am finding it very difficult to do with awk and nawk.
Is there an Awk/Nawk easy way do this?


#Example ksh program
function printsection
{
echo "This is line 1"
echo "This is line 2"
echo "This is line ...."
}

printsection
more code in here....
.......
.......
printsection > myfile

exit 0

#Awk/Nawk Program
nawk '{

function printawksection(){
printf "\n" "This is line 1"
printf "\n" "This is line 2"
printf "\n" "This is line ...."
}
} END {

printawksection
more code in here....
.......
.......
printawksection > myfile

}'

exit 0

 

[feherke]

Hi

Why do not just [tt]print[/tt] it to the standard output from where you can use [tt]tee[/tt] to both print and save ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[madasafish]

code
if ( flag == "d" )
{
printf "%55s\n","LICENSES"
printf "%55s\n","================="
printf "\n"
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s\n","Common","AA","BB"
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s\n","========","========","========"
for(j=1;j<=i[1]||j<=i[2]||j<=i[3];++j)
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s\n",a[3,j],a[1,j],a[2,j]
printf "\n"
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s\n","Common","AA","BB","Total Used","Available"
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s\n","========","========","========","========","========"
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s\n",i[3],i[1],i[2],usedlicense,(maxlicense - usedlicense)
printf "%-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s %-15s\n","========","========","========","========","========"
}
if ( flag == "m" && ( usedlicense > (threshold / 100 * maxlicense) ))
{
printf "\n" > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","License Usage" > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","=======================" > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","Total Purchased: = " maxlicense > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","Total Used : = " usedlicense > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","Total Available: = " (maxlicense - usedlicense) > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","=======================" > i2mailtxt
printf "\n" > i2mailtxt
printf "%s\n","See attachment for details" > i2mailtxt
printf "\n" > i2mailtxt
cmd = sprintf(script" -d > "i2mailatt) color red <----Calls this program with -d flag (only problem is, it resets variables at the beginning of the script. /color
system( cmd )
close ( cmd )
}
/code

From your answer can I deduce that calling a sub-section in an awk progam is not possible - similiar to the ksh example shown above?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Sorry, I understood nothing from your code. But one thing is clear : you can run [tt]awk[/tt] script from [tt]ksh[/tt] and [tt]ksh[/tt] script from [tt]awk[/tt], but that not stands for functions in neither direction. Functions can be called where they are declared.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/