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From: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: answer to nawk problem
Message-ID: <112@gizzmo.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 89 23:27:31 GMT
Reply-To: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Organization: gizzmo, Walworth, NY
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OK, I found out that this was a simple case of RTFM!  Sorry, the problem 
is that the shell "if" responds for the first statement if a 0 is 
returned from the test, but the awk "if" is derived from the C "if" in 
that if a 1 is returned from the test then the first statement is 
exicuted, just the reverse! Soooo, since the test -d returns a 0 if 
true the awk if ran just the oppisite from what I expected.
Iffy enough for everyone!


$3 > 99	{ 

if ( system("test -d "$6)) {
  printf("\r\n--- %s does not exist, creating it and moving files --- \r\n",$6) 
  system("mkdir "$6) 
  }
else 
  printf("--- %s exists, moving files now ---\r\n",$6) 

}

Mark Hilliard
N2HHR
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