struggling within awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

!#/bin/bash

cat input.sh | awk '
{
cur1=tolower($1)

cur2=tolower($2)

rsh $cur1 report | grep $cur2

# i just want to make the code line to work
} '

the error which i get is ....

./madh1.sh: line 1: !#/bin/bash: No such file or directory
awk: cmd. line:13: rsh $cur1 report | grep tree | grep $cur2
awk: cmd. line:13: ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:13: rsh $cur1 report | grep tree | grep $cur2
awk: cmd. line:13: ^ syntax error

i'm new to shell scripting & not comfortable with the awk..can you please help me..

thanks in advance,

regards,
geeko.

2

1) you got your shebang wrong.
2) to call external commands like rsh, grep etc, you can use system()
3) no need for cat.

3

hi all,

have been trying to call rsh in the the awk script from 2 days, i didn't get
it finally.. how to use rsh and grep within awk script?

-thanks,
geeko

4

show your code

5

[quote=ghostdog74;302139726]
show your code[/QUOTE

the code is above this post :), anyways my code is like this

cat input.txt | awk ' {

rsh $1 quota report | grep tree| grep $2
# in the above line i'm not able to do rsh, grep...
}

the error is

./madh1.sh
awk: cmd. line:5: sh $1 quota report | grep tree | grep $2
awk: cmd. line:5: ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:5: sh $1 quota report | grep tree | grep $2
awk: cmd. line:5: ^ syntax error