[Charlie IronGleet]

Hi,

How do I execute an awk script from within a bash script? I want to execute the script against a particular file. So I know you can just go if whatever then ./yourScript. What I need to know is how to tell that script what file to process.

Thanks,
Charlie

Charlie IronGleet, on 25 April 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:

Hi,

How do I execute an awk script from within a bash script? I want to execute the script against a particular file. So I know you can just go if whatever then ./yourScript. What I need to know is how to tell that script what file to process.

Thanks,
Charlie

BTW: Please accept my apologies if I've posted in the wrong forum. Unless I overlooked it, I didn't see a Linux or shell scripting forum.

[no2pencil]

Is your awk script set to executable?

[Charlie IronGleet]

no2pencil, on 25 April 2011 - 03:45 PM, said:

Is your awk script set to executable?

yes
chmod 755 script

[Charlie IronGleet]

Charlie IronGleet, on 25 April 2011 - 03:50 PM, said:

no2pencil, on 25 April 2011 - 03:45 PM, said:

Is your awk script set to executable?

yes
chmod 755 script

What I mean is like this: I might go .. less script. That's analogous to what I want to do here. Is there anyway I can go ./RecScript script.... or equivalent.

[no2pencil]

You should be able to just launch a shell with sh.

#!/bin/sh
script="awk.sh"

#launch script
sh $script

#report results
var=`sh $script`
echo ${var}