Hi, I have the following one liner which works great in a shell script. I have a
comma delimited text file with the same number of rows.
I want to add the date in YYYY-MM-DD format to every line...
I was doing this..
cat $file | awk '{print $0 "," "'$fdate'"}' >>$new_file
Works great
Unfortunately when I add that to perl in backticks for the system to execute,
It blows up on the quotes between $0 (the whole line), the comma, and the date
variable.
In perl, I know I could do...
$fdate=`date
open (FILE, ">/newfile");
@file=`cat $oldfile`
foreach $item(@file) {
chomp $item;
print FILE "$item,$fdate\n";
}
close (FILE);
However, it seems like such a waste to turn an elegant one line into 8 lines of code
So how can I make that one liner work, I've tried backslashing the quotes, using
single quotes, and everytime awk blows up at me?
Thanks much,
Taylor
Taylor Lewick
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