awk and date command
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Nov 21 20:50:49 UTC 2007
ann kok wrote:
> Thank you
>
> but i don't know how to put the hostname in awk
> program
>
> eg: my program is "program.awk
>
> awk -f program.awk file.txt
>
> Thank you again
>
> BEGIN { RS = "\n" ; FS = "|" }
>
> {
> print "Name:", $9
> print "Created: `date`"
> print "from: `hostname`"
> print ""
> }
>
>
> --- Lou Spironello <lspironello at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> echo "test" | awk -v mydate=`date +%Y%m%d` '{printf
>> "standard input is
>> %s\nmy variable value is %s\n",$1,mydate}'
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lou
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2007 12:22 PM, ann kok
>> <annkok2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> how can I print date in this date format? 20071122
>>>
>>> Can command "date, hostname" run in awk program
>>> itself?
>>>
>>> program.awk
>>>
>>> BEGIN { RS = "\n" ; FS = "|" }
>>>
>>> {
>>> print "Name:", $9
>>> print "Created: `date`"
>>> print "from: `hostname`"
>>> print ""
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thank you
awk doesn't seem to do backticks. try this:
[summer at potoroo ~]$ echo | awk "{print \"`hostname`\"}"
potoroo.demo.lan
[summer at potoroo ~]$
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John
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