Concatenation in awk not working

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello

I want to achieve the following.

However the concatenation is not working

mv `ls -ltr *myfile*.log|awk '{print $9}'`  `ls -ltr *myfile*.log|awk '{print `date +'%d%m%y%k%M%S'` $9}'`

I tried

awk '{x=`date +'%d%m%y%k%M%S'` print $x "" $9}'
awk '{x=`date +'%d%m%y%k%M%S'` print x "" $9}'

But nothing is working

Please help me on this

Thanks and Regards
Chetanz

2

You're just trying to prepend the date to filename?

date=$(date +'%d%m%y%k%M%S')
for file in *myfile*.log; do
  mv "$file" "${date}${file}"
done
3

NO backtics in awk, please! And, using nested backtics like in your mv command needs escaping them. That's why backtics are deprecated and users are encouraged to use the $(...) form of command substitution.
In order to get the output of a shell command into an awk variable, you need to use command, pipe, and getline like in

$ awk '{"date +%d%m%y%k%M%S"|getline x; print x}' file
010313114139

BTW - the way you use the ls -ltr construct is far from optimal and would not fit mv usage, as both invocations may yield multiple files that mv does not handle that way. What's the reason to use it the way you do? Maybe there's other, improved ways to achieve the desired result.