Summary: awk question II

Sorry, many more have responded.  Thanks to all.


use nawk (new awk) rather than awk (very old awk), and install gawk (GNU
awk)


match can be replaced by /Memory/, so:
awk '/Memory/{print substr($0, 8)}' /var/adm/messages


------Original Message------
From: Daniel Lee <daniel_lee@asia.com>
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Sent: May 22, 2001 8:04:56 PM GMT
Subject: 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).
--
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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