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From: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Awk with passed parameters
Keywords: awk bsd shell
Message-ID: <55825@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 21:04:30 GMT
References: <3022@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> <1991Mar10.033553.28978@pilikia.pegasus.com> <55345@sequent.UUCP> <1991Mar15.182242.18780@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <1991Mar15.182242.18780@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <55345@sequent.UUCP>, lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton) writes:
>|> I may be missing something obvious here but why use awk at all?
>|> 
>|> IFS=': '
>|> set `date`
>|> hrs=$4
>|> m=$2   
>|> 
>|> etc
>|> 
>|> works just fine for a 12 hour clock display I use from the date output
>
>  How does this solve the problem that the original poster is trying to solve?
>
>  He wanted to use awk to filter the output of "ls" to print out only those
>files that were modified today.  What you posted above explains how to set the
>month and day to shell variables.  But how are you going to then use that to
>filter the output of ls?  If you try to do it completely in the shell, you're
>going to have to pipe the output of ls into a loop or function that matches
>each line against the month and day.  The matching will have to be done using
>"test" or "expr".  Which means (unless you've got a shell with "test" built
>in) that you're going to be forking a process to do the test for every line in
>the ls listing.
>
>  Is that really what you intended to suggest, or am I missing something?
>
Pretty much was what I were suggesting.

I tend to use awk/nawk for gobs of things, but I've also done a lot of
date "functions" just using simple shell.

and to be true, I was a tad unclear as to what his real mission was.

Don "hmm Asics don't taste too bad, little rubbery though" Bolton