Gawk and other utilities

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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In the past I saw a entry on the forum that someone had compiled some apps.  that are not released with the standard My Cloud.  I can’t find this thread.  I’m looking for gawk that works on the My cloud.

Thanks

RAC

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Here is the thread of software working on version 4 firmware: Repository with software worked on v4 firmware

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Thanks

RAC

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The only thread I could find that may relate to what you are looking for is this one:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Cloud/GUIDE-Cross-Compiling-Transmission-2-82/m-p/631649/highlight/true#M2313

Hopefully an experienced User will be able to assist.

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Bennor answered the question.

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I’m pretty sure AWK is already there, because I use loads of AWK scripts for media metadata manipulation, and I do that on the MyCloud via SSH, as it’s faster running locally than having to run on a remopte machine and pull a lot of data over the ethernet link.

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Yes awk is on the device.  But the version of awk on the device does not define strftime.  gawk is supposed to define strftime.

But in the mean time I tink I have solved my problem with a perl script.

Thanks

RAC

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I can give you some PostScript code to take a unix timestamp and create all the date and time fields you might require… I might even have some AWK to do the job as a test vehicle…

Or this:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1309170

Looking arond the MyCloud, I see that there are three AWKs in /usr/bin

awk

mawk

nawk

awk points to /etc/alternatives/awk

nawk points to /etc/alternatives/nawk

but mawk exists natively in /usr/bin

But mawk doesn’t seem to support strftime, either…

Oh, the many flavours of AWK…

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Thanks for the info.  I spent several hoursa trying to figure how to convert a timestamp value to a readable time.   I finally was able to do it in perl.  All I wanted was a script to print out the result blktrace and convert the relative timestamp into the actual time so I could compare the disk I/O’s with the sleep times in the user.log.

I now have a script the will do what I want.  All of this just to find out why the system wakes up.

Thanks

RAC