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I've the following awk command:

awk -F ' ' '{ print $NF }' log filename

And it gives the output as below:

06:00:00
parameters:
SDS
(2)
no
no
no
no

doc=4000000000).


information:
0
5898
5898
06:06:25

The problem is I need to save this in an array. For example when I print or echo $array[0]

I should get 06:00:00

and similarly

$array[1] = parameters:
.
.
.
$array[n] = 06:06:25

My end goal is to print them using a print statement i.e

printf("start time: %d  and end time: %d", array[0], array[n]")

Output

start time:06:00:00 and end time:06:06:25
Raphael Ahrens
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Ram
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2 Answers2

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This should do it:

array=( $(awk -F ' ' '{ print $NF }' log filename) )

Given @Stephane's comment, another approach:

array=()
awk -F ' ' '{ print $NF }' log filename | while IFS= read -r line; do
    array+=( "$line" )
done
echo ${#array[@]}
echo ${array[1]}
echo ${array[17]}

17
06:00:00
06:06:25

works on my ksh "93u+"

glenn jackman
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    That skips the empty lines and you'd have issues if the output contains tab or wildcard characters. – Stéphane Chazelas Oct 08 '13 at 16:38
  • You'd also have issues using bash, pdksh, or some other shells which put variables defined/modified on the RHS of a pipe operator into a subshell, as array would be empty after the loop. – dannysauer Oct 08 '13 at 18:26
  • True, but fortunately the tag is ksh. – glenn jackman Oct 08 '13 at 18:34
  • Many Linux systems and some other systems use pdksh as their "ksh". I'd put the awk command in the background as a ksh coprocess and then have read use the -p argument to read from that coprocess, personally. That works with both. – dannysauer Oct 08 '13 at 20:40
  • @glennjackman: I had tried the first approch earlier I was kicked saying this error.

    ksh: 0403-057 Syntax error:(' is not expected.`

    By tring your second approach I was getting the same error.

    ksh: 0403-057 Syntax error:(' is not expected.`

     – Ram Oct 09 '13 at 09:20
  • @glennjackman : By the way m using ksh88 – Ram Oct 09 '13 at 09:21
  • does ksh88 have arrays? – glenn jackman Oct 09 '13 at 11:46
0

It looks like you just need the value of the last field of the first and last record.

This is best done in awk itself:

nawk 'NR == 1 {start=$NF}
    {last=$NF}
    END { 
         printf("start time: %s  and end time: %s", start, last)
    }' log filename
start time: 06:00:00  and end time: 06:06:25

Use an array indexed by NR (record number/line number) in awk if you want to access the fields at random:

nawk '{
    last[NR]=$(NF)
} END {
    print last[1],last[NR-1]
}' log
06:00:00 5898
Henk Langeveld
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  • @HenkLangevelt:What if I wanted get other values such as 0 and 5898 (last but one value) because if i want to make this one generic and change only the varibles to print differnt variable as per req. – Ram Oct 09 '13 at 10:11