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takayama

05-15-2011 12:25 PM

Awk+print, create file if not exixt

I having the following awk line in a script, is it possible to modify the script so that it create a the directory if it dosnt exist (similar to mkdir -p)

awk -v datum="$DATUM" -v workingdir="$workingdir" '{ sub("\\[.*","",$5); print > workingdir"/"datum "/" $5;}' $1

Nominal Animal

05-15-2011 01:31 PM

Try this:

Code:

awk -v datum="$DATUM" -v workingdir="$workingdir" '

    { sub("\\[.*","",$5)

      file=workingdir "/" datum "/" $5

      cmd=file

      sub(/\/+[^\/]*$/, "", cmd)

      cmd="mkdir -p \047" cmd "\047"

      print | cmd

      close(cmd)

      print > file }' "$1"

Had to edit the command for a few times ;)

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