Re: problem using parallel with awk

[Hans Schou]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Shantanu Unknown wrote:

> Hi,I have started using parallel recentllyHOwever it is not working correctly 
> with awk
>
> find 201011* -name pre_create_scamp_inputs.out | parallel awk "'/Executing/ {print 
> $2}' {}"
> This prints the whole line and not $2.
> the xargs argument works
>
> find 201011* -name pre_create_scamp_inputs.out | xargs awk '/Executing/ {print 
> $2}'
> Am I doing something wrong n the parallel syntax while calling awk?
> thanks

You need a \ before $2, like:
 find 20* -name foo | parallel awk "'/Executing/ {print \$2}'"

/hans
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