Running awk script on a file in another folder

[cgoodman]

Okay,

I am attempting to run a compiled awk executable against a file that is in another folder. I tried giving the executable the path of the file, but it gives an error, as if it cannot find the file.

Any ideas?

Thanks for all help.

 

[PHV]

Sorry, but what is a compiled awk executable ?

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[cgoodman]

it is a windows executable that is created by compiling an awk script.

however, i'm not sure that that that is the essential point. I just want to run an awk script on a file that is located in a different folder. Is there anything I need to write to allow awk to handle this exception?

 

[PHV]

I tried giving the executable the path of the file
How did you that ?
In which shell ?
but it gives an error
What is the whole error message ?
Error raised by the shell or the compiled awk executable ?

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[cgoodman]

The error I was receiving was from the shell, and it was because I was creating a file inside the script which had a naming convention that began with the filepath. Therefore, because a filepath was inside name of the document that I am attempting to create, I was receiving an "file not found" error.

To go around this, I attempted to write code that extracted the name of the file that I wanted (just the filename, not any part of the path).

MYFILENAME = ARGV[1+(CR)+(FILEOPTION)+(GOODOPTION)+(DATA)];
split(MYFILENAME, filepath1, "\"");
split(filepath1, filepath2, "\\");

for(i=0;i<=length(filepath2);i++)
{
        if(filepath2[i] ~ ".txt$");
        {
                MYFILENAME = filepath2[i];
        }
}
split(MYFILENAME, pieces, ".");

 

[PHV]

You seriously have to read the awk documentation about the split function.

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