AWK Programming in Linux

[Samuel Mathew]

I am running a script that was made for HP-UX 10.20. We have ported this application to linux. IT has some awk commands in the script.
It shows the error close file
^parse error.
^ sign is coming underneath 'file'. ANybody has any idea what is happening.?
I would appreciate a quick answer from the expert s.
The script has been changed in some places to run uner linux. But this one we cant figure that out.
So please help me. If you need any more information please let me know

[Balaji N]

hey

are u using a awk file with all the commands and then calling it as

awk -f filename scriptname

or something similar.

if so check the filename.

some more inputs pls.

1. what is the name of the file it shows.
2. is it a data file or the commands file.

-balaji

[Samuel Mathew]

Balaji,
Thanks for the quick reply.
the error is like this:
awk: ../Drilling/awk/Drills:81: close file
^parse error
awk: ../Drilling/awk/Drills:81: close fTmp
^parse error
awk: ../Drilling/awk/Drills:81: close fDrill
^parse error
^sign comes under the file,fTmp and fDrill respectively.
Those are files defined like this in the script
file=Dir"/"Class[Cur]
fTmp=Dir"/tmp/Unsorted_"MILL
fDrill=Dir"/tmp/Drill_"MILL
So I assume that they are data files. I cant find them anywhere anyway

This is a tricky situation for me.
I would appreciate a help
Regards

[Steven E. Protter]

Please post the script or relavent portions.

SEP

[Balaji N]

hmm..
too little info. if u could post snippets from the file with the error line indicated or the entire file, can have a look.

-balaji

[Samuel Mathew]

Thanks. Here isone of the script file.
If you can make out something from this, please let me know. There are a number of script files in this application that uses awk. I am a null on awk and sed as such.
Thanks
Bye

[Stuart Browne]

Simply put, try 'close(file)'.

[Krishna Prasad]

Also check the shell you are running in.

If you script calls awk within the shell, it maybe a shell issue.

On 10.20 you probably were using the corn ksh shell. On the Linux machine you probably are using bash or the posix shell.

Awk is also a little different since they were compiled on different Operating Systems.


One more suggestion is to start with one step of the script at a time. This may help indicated which section of the script is having the port issue.

[Samuel Mathew]

I am running ksh on this linux machine. Since the old scripts on HP-UX were on ksh I ran it on linux also to be on the safer side.
If I put set -vx at the top of the script will it help me to debug, the program better.
I have not tried the close(file) command yet. So are you suggesting that it is a syntax issue.
Any other comments?
Thanks
Sam

[Samuel Mathew]

I could get rid of the errorwith awk. The suggestion to close(file) helped. I will be assigning points. Now
I have a problem with a function that is being called. I am attaching that here. The error is. "[0.00] Unexpected '.'
Can any of you help us with this. We suspect that this function attached here is causing it after we ran the scripts with set -vx.
I would appreciate help.
Regards