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Old 02-15-2009, 04:59 AM   #1
alertroshannow
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AWK a variable Ouptut to a new variable and using the new variable with the old one


Dear All,

I am trying to change a filename viz; ABC.txt, to ABC_utf8.txt
Once I get the _utf8* named file.. my directory should have two files, ABC.txt and ABC_utf8.txt

Thus later I would try and use "iconv" on ABC.TXT and change the char-set and generate "ABC_utf8.txt"

But all the time, my both variable store same value "ABC.txt"

find -name '*'\.\txt -type f -print|while read FILENAME
do
echo ${FILENAME}
FILENAME1= $(echo $FILENAME | awk '{c=split($0, s, "."); print "s[1]"_utf8."s[2]""}')
echo ${FILENAME1}
iconv -f windows-1256 -t UTF-8 "${FILENAME}" > "${FILENAME1}"
done


Please advise.
Pardon me if I was unable to explain my concern, I shall be glad to rephrase it again.

-Rgds,
Roshan Nair
 
Old 02-15-2009, 05:11 AM   #2
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I don't think you need to use awk for this. You can do the whole thing in one line with bash's parameter substitution. Assuming all input files have a ".txt" extension:

Code:
iconv -f windows-1256 -t UTF-8 "${FILENAME}" > "${FILENAME%.txt}_utf8.txt"
I just love parameter substitution.
 
Old 02-15-2009, 05:19 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by David the H. View Post
I don't think you need to use awk for this. You can do the whole thing in one line with bash's parameter substitution. Assuming all input files have a ".txt" extension:

Code:
iconv -f windows-1256 -t UTF-8 "${FILENAME}" > "${FILENAME%.txt}_utf8.txt"
I just love parameter substitution.
Thank You So much David, it just clicked a happy pose for me

-Rgds,
Roshan
 
Old 02-15-2009, 06:14 AM   #4
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Glad to help. It's usually more productive to state the results you want, and let people give you possible solutions, than to restrict yourself to using a specific tool from the outset.

By the way, your original problem seems to be 1) an unwanted space between the "=" and the "$", and 2) some unnecessary quote marks. This works for me:

Code:
FILENAME1=$(echo $FILENAME | awk '{c=split($0, s, "."); print s[1]"_utf8."s[2]}')
But there are lighter tools you can use than awk, even if you don't go with parameter substitution (i.e. you're using a shell other than bash). Since it's just a simple text string substitution, how about sed?

Code:
FILENAME1=$(echo $FILENAME | sed "s/.txt/_utf8.txt/")
 
Old 02-16-2009, 12:08 AM   #5
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I am actually an Oracle DBA, trying my hand on some of the shell scripting, to ensure that some of the manual tasks my developers do, are removed from their hectic responsibilities.

They generate a file (a flat file of encoding type ANSI) through Oracle (which is based on a HP Unix box) on a NAS Server running on windows, so I pick it from there, load it onto Linux convert the char-set to UTF8 and push it back to the NAS, so that they can have it as UTF8 as desired.

Your subsitution command did work for me, and I did edit the same in my code,

Thanks again.

Roshan Nair
 
  


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