Help with passing variables

[Meher1]

Hi. I was wondering if I could fix the problem I have with my previous message in a different way. I'm sorry for multiple threads, I'm a newbie to both unix and awk and do not even have a awk book to refer.

I'll repeat the whole issue again.

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test.ksh

for i in $dir
do
test.awk i > $dir/(basename i)_C
done

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test1.awk

BEGIN{OFS=FS="*"}
/QR/{
for (j=1;j<=NF-7;j++) {
if ($j ~ /QR/ && $(j+1)==&quot;XA&quot sub(/Z/,&quot;K&quot;,$(j+7))
print $0
}
}

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In test.ksh where it is printing the out put, if the if condition satisfies, then only I want to create a file *_C, if it does not I don't want the file created. The above script is creating a *_C file for all the files in directory $dir.


I was wondering if I could print a file in /dir with filename (what ever the file name is, if its is X, the out put file should be X_C) *_C with in the awk script itself.

TIA.

 

[CaKiwi]

Do all the lines in the file you want to change have QR in them? If so, something like this might do what you want.

awk -f test1.awk $dir/*

BEGIN{OFS=FS=&quot;*&quot;}
/QR/{
for (j=1;j<=NF-7;j++) {
if ($j ~ /QR/ && $(j+1)==&quot;XA&quot {
sub(/Z/,&quot;K&quot;,$(j+7))
print $0 > FILENAME &quot;_C&quot;
}
}
}

Also, It's not clear to me how you are executing awk. Does you script have a line like #!/bin/awk in it? And what operating system are you on?

CaKiwi

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