Help needed in function calling in a script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

:confused:Hi ,

I have a script as shown below:

rpttxt()
{
name="$*"
awk '/'"${name}"'/ {print $2 $3"=" $4}' file.txt

}

xx = rpttxt "COL_HEAD_1"
awk 'BEGIN {printf("%36s \n ","'"$xx"'")}'

rpttxt() is a function..I want to store the final result of this function in the variable "xx" and print this in a specific format..
When i run this script i get an error : line 8: xx: command not found
Is their any error in calling the function ..?

Thanks in advance

JS

2

I have solved it
Condiser the thread closed..
Thanks
JS

3

Good that you solved it but, it is better to post that how did you solve it...! Atleast the next one like me (dumb) will get to know the solution :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance.

-ilan

4

The script is :
rpttxt()
{
name="$*"
awk '/'"${name}"'/ {print $2 $3"=" $4}' file.txt

}

xx = rpttxt "COL_HEAD_1"
awk 'BEGIN {printf("%36s \n ","'"${xx}"'")}'

Actually the problem was with my file.txt It had got some quotes in it due to which the script didnt run properly.