can AWK accept Shell cript?

[cruzerMicro]

i tried this one:

BEGIN { print " Hello " }

{
find -name taufiq.txt

}


END { print "Finished " }

is there anything wrong with the code or the AWK does not accept Shell command in its script. the error produce is:

awk: MyName.awk:4: find -name taufiq.txt
awk: MyName.awk:4:..............................^ syntax error

[papetova]

I don't recognize this. What are you trying to do exactly?

[cruzerMicro]

i just want to know, does AWK accept SHELL command if we embed the SHELL command in AWK script. Will AWK execute?

because what i want to try latter is create 20 user account using the "adduser" where the user name will be from a text document containing the name of the user account.

[ghostdog74]

i just want to know, does AWK accept SHELL command if we embed the SHELL command in AWK script. Will AWK execute?

yes but not the way you did it.
to execute external command from within awk, most common method is using the system() function

awk ' {
       cmd = "construct your command here"
       system(cmd)
'

[papetova]

You could also do it a simpler way by just running:

for user in `cat textfile.txt`; do adduser $user; done

or if needed...

for user in `cat textfile.txt | awk '{print $1}'`; do adduser $user; done

Of course replace textfile.txt with your file and the $1 with the column you need.

[cruzerMicro]

You could also do it a simpler way by just running:

for user in `cat textfile.txt | awk '{print $1}'`; do adduser $user; done

Of course replace textfile.txt with your file and the $1 with the column you need.

hay thanks. but whats the awk '{print $1}' for?

[papetova]

It jst grabs the first column delimited by space, so if you had "john ", it would only grab "john".

Probably not needed, but useful for more than one column.

$1 - column 1
$2 - column 2

and so on.