Question

/!bin/sh

   if [ "`echo $desc $status | awk -F"," '{print $3}' | awk -F" " '{print $1}' | sed '/^$/d'`" != "OK" ]; then
        echo "howdy dody"
   fi

echo $desc $status | awk -F"," '{print $3}' | awk -F" " '{print $1}' | sed '/^$/d'

First if-condition won’t run, im guessing it’s because of improper quotation, but i can’t figure it out.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

If you’re using Bash, I’d recommend $(...) instead of back-quotes. What error messages do you get? My guess is that the -F"," option to awk is not being quoted properly. Trying inserting \ to escape the quotation marks.