awk command Error

[GVishnu]

Hi ,

I have written following statement to get the value from a footer file

LCNT2=`awk -F "|" '{ print $2}' footer.txt`
but its giving an junk value while I am testign thru Shell scripting

Error is:
+ LCNT2=$'9\r'
which is supposed to be 9.

Can you please help me out,

Many Thanks,
Vishnu

[GVishnu]

could any one please help me out! I am all most stuck with this issue.

Many Thanks,
Vishnu.

[anomie]

There's a carriage return appended to the value.

Try:

gawk -F "|" '{ sub("\r$", "", $2); print $2}' footer.txt

to strip it.

[GVishnu]

Thanks a lot for your help! its working..


Kind Regards,
Vishnu.