Re: awk and date command

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@potoroo ~]$ echo | awk "{print \"`hostname`\"}"
potoroo.demo.lan
[summer@potoroo ~]$





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