Command line variables as input to AWK?

[AwkNewbie]

The following program works fine, EXCEPT I get residue on the screen. I appear to me as the command line variables being passed to AWK:

Program below:


#!/usr/bin/ksh

#===========================================================
# Needed for CRON (refreshes profile)...
#===========================================================
conORACLE_SID=`/usr/ucb/whoami | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

. /opt/clarify/$conORACLE_SID/.profile

#===========================================================
# Declarations...
#===========================================================
conCOMMAND_DIRECTORY="/usr/xpg4/bin"
strTimeStamp=`date '+_%y%m%d_%H:%M:%S'`
strINPUT_FILE="/opt/clarify/$conORACLE_SID/$1/log_files/stress/stress_$1.txt"
strOUTPUT_FILE="/tmp/stress_$1$strTimeStamp.txt"

$conCOMMAND_DIRECTORY/awk -v output_file=$strOUTPUT_FILE '
BEGIN {
x = 1
}
{
if (substr($0,1,1) == "\"&quot
{
print $0 > output_file
}
else
{
if (x > ARGV[2])
{
print $0 > output_file
}
x++
}
}
' $strINPUT_FILE $2


Output from program:

/opt/clarify/scripts[CRMS]:-> strrefresh1.ksh cntc_rxr 10
input file "10"/opt/clarify/scripts[CRMS]:->

My question is, where does the text (input file "10&quot come from?

Thanks

 

[CaKiwi]

Could it be coming out of your .profile file? Put some echo statements before and after the .profile call and the awk call to narrow down the source of the extraneous output. CaKiwi

 

[AwkNewbie]

I commented out the .profile line and I still got the same results. I will investigate it further...