Summary: awk question

Thanks to the quick responses.

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I have found that some things are broken in Solaris awk. I think the "match"
command is broken.

Try /usr/xpg4/bin/awk (The POSIX form).
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Russ Poffenberger

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Use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris and your problems will disappear. ;-)

xpg4 contains the POSIX compliant versions of different programs on Solaris
and is preferable. Otherwise, you can download Gnu awk.

Sanjiv K. Bhatia


------Original Message------
From: Daniel Lee <daniel_lee@asia.com>
To: "'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: May 22, 2001 7:32:20 PM GMT
Subject: awk question


Folks,

This is off the topic.  I am not too familiar with awk.  I am trying gather
information regarding memory.  My awk statement works fine in HP-UX and
Linux.   However, I get error messages on Solaris.

HP-UX:
awk 'match($0,"Memory"){print substr ($0,8)}' /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
returns...
16:41:32 hostname vmunix: Memory Information:

Linux:
awk 'match($0,"Memory"){print substr ($0,8)}' /var/log/syslog
returns...
09:29:51 hostname kernel: Memory: 516724k/524288k available (1048k kernel
code, 412k reserved, 5616k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)

Solaris:
awk 'match($0,"Memory"){print substr ($0,8)}' /var/adm/messages
returns...
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

Can someone point out what is wrong or direct me where to look for help?  I
have been outlooking at the Sed & Awk book from O'Reilly.  My arguments
appear to be correct.

Thanks,
Daniel


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