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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