awk: fatal:cannot open file for reading (no such file or Directory) in Linux
 

When i tried to run some scripts over Linux, the script used to fail because of this line in scripts:

HOST: $IP

"|awk nc ${IP} 80|awk '/HTTP/ {printf "[1m%s[0m\n",$0}; !/HTTP/ {printf "%s\n",$0}'

read L?"Press ENTER to continue"
echo "\n${UND}PUT${NOR}"
echo "PUT /etc/hosts HTTP/1.1

Where IP is IP address(10.255.114.207) of a network printer.

The error what am observing is

awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `10.255.114.207' for reading (No such file or directory)
Press ENTER to continue

right.. so that file doesn't exist... not sure what else we're meant to be telling you...

Hi,
Am trying to talk to a network printer with the mentioned IP address, which is not able to connect i suppose, any clues ?

well it's just wrong... that awk command is expecting a file input, a file with the name of the IP address...

This is one line from a script which is i don't know how big... you've given no context as to how the IP is being interpreted... maybe there is meant to be a file of that name, maybe there isn't.. we've no idea.

Hi Chris,
How i run the script is , i pass the IP address of printer as an argument to the script;
When i try to execute the script pertaining to the Printer,
HOST: will reflect the IP address of printer what i have passed;

HOST: 10.255.114.207

"|awk nc ${10.255.114.207} 80|awk '/HTTP/ {printf "[1m%s[0m\n",$0}; !/HTTP/ {printf "%s\n",$0}';

Will this information be sufficient ?
If not will post the complet flow of script which uses awk in a Perl script.

Thxs
Vishwa