substitute string

[krava]

hi,

i would like to substitute a substring with the given string in filanames. I wrote this script that use awk:

function subFlNmPart(){
for i in `find -name "$1" -print`; do
  bn="$(basename $i)";
  #eval o=\"$( awk -v inFl=$bn -v target=$2 -v word=$3 'BEGIN{
      sub(target, word, inFl); 
      print inFl}' )\";
  o=`awk -v inFl=$bn -v target=$2 -v word=$3 'BEGIN{
      sub(target, word, inFl); 
      print inFl }'`;
  echo $o;
done
}

USAGE: subFlNmPart "file*more*csv" "more" "all"
OUTPUT: file1_more.csv -> file1_all.csv for example


I am not sure why $o is not assigned. Any ideas?


k.

 

[Annihilannic]

What is the output you are actually getting?

find needs at least one parameter before -name, i.e. the path to search.

If you are commenting out the eval statement, you need to comment out all three lines including the awk script.

On some platforms awk does not work with only a BEGIN clause, you may need to echo | awk 'BEGIN { ... }'.

Annihilannic.

 

[krava]

thanks

o=`echo | awk 'BEGIN { ... }'` works fine in this context