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cannot see the error, need help
I am writing a script that calls an awk script and takes 2 arguments: argument #1 is a directory argument #2 is a filter The awk script performs some statistical operations. The input file(s) are gzip-ed files called "access_log.gz". In order to get a "per file" output I use...- Baraka69
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why is FILENAME variable unavailable ?!
I'm trying to use the built-in variable called FILENAME. According to the manual pages (HP-UX-11.00) for awk it says: "FILENAME A pathname of the current input file." My awk script: BEGIN { printf("%s (", FILENAME) } { # print a * every 2'000 lines of... -
how to deal with an exit code
I have an AWK script that is being called within a shell script. The shell script takes a directory as argument and runs the AWK script in that directory (and all subdirectiories) on a specific file (always the same file name). This file somtimes has lines that are longer than 3,000 bytes and...- Baraka69
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error/return code of awk script
I have an AWK script that has to plow through an access_log (apache web server) and I have a surfer/user (lucky for me he has a fixed ip-address) that produces lines that are longer than 3,000 bytes/characters and then my awk script quits with an error message (don't have the exact wording, but...
