jcdole
October 9, 2025, 8:36pm
1
zypper lr -d1 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6 | NVIDIA1NVIDIA:repo-non-freerepo-non-free (15.6)https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.61NVIDIA:repo-non-freerepo-non-free(15.6) https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6read NUM ALIAS NAME URI <<< $( echo ${PARAM} | awk -F "|" '{print $1 $2 $3 $10}' )
Any help is welcome.
I have done a fair bit with awk over the years.
What happens if you run:
zypper lr -d | awk -F "|" '{print $1 $2 $3 $10}'
?
Without the rest of the code (showing how these variables are being defined/extracted), it’s kind of difficult to see what the issue might be.
It would also be good to know which awk you have installed.
jcdole
October 10, 2025, 10:19am
3
user_install@15-6-G815LM-JC:~> zypper lr -d | awk -F "|" '{print $1 $2 $3 $10}'
# Alias Name URI
---+---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------
1 NVIDIA:repo-non-free repo-non-free (15.6) https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6
2 openSUSE-Leap-15.6-1 openSUSE-Leap-15.6-1 hd:/?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_0793PK7KZ3DM4PI4-0:0-part2
3 openSUSE:repo-non-oss repo-non-oss (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2
4 openSUSE:repo-non-oss-debug repo-non-oss-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2
5 openSUSE:repo-openh264 repo-openh264 (15.6) http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap?mediahandler=curl2
6 openSUSE:repo-oss repo-oss (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2
7 openSUSE:repo-oss-debug repo-oss-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2
8 openSUSE:repo-oss-source repo-oss-source (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2
9 openSUSE:update-backports update-backports (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports?mediahandler=curl2
10 openSUSE:update-backports-debug update-backports-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports_debug?mediahandler=curl2
11 openSUSE:update-non-oss update-non-oss (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2
12 openSUSE:update-non-oss-debug update-non-oss-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2
13 openSUSE:update-oss update-oss (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/oss?mediahandler=curl2
14 openSUSE:update-oss-debug update-oss-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/oss?mediahandler=curl2
15 openSUSE:update-sle update-sle (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle?mediahandler=curl2
16 openSUSE:update-sle-debug update-sle-debug (15.6) http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/sle?mediahandler=curl2
17 repo-backports-debug-update Update repository of openSUSE Backports (Debug) http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports_debug/
18 repo-backports-update Update repository of openSUSE Backports http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports/
19 repo-debug Debug Repository http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/
20 repo-debug-non-oss Debug Repository (Non-OSS) http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss/
21 repo-debug-update Update Repository (Debug) http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/oss/
22 repo-debug-update-non-oss Update Repository (Debug, Non-OSS) http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/non-oss/
23 repo-non-oss Non-OSS Repository http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss/
24 repo-openh264 Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Leap) http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap/
25 repo-oss Main Repository http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/
26 repo-sle-debug-update Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (Debug) http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/sle/
27 repo-sle-update Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle/
28 repo-source Source Repository http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/
29 repo-update Main Update Repository http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/oss
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
START OF MY PROGRAM :
removed '/home/user_install/zypper_cmd_create_repos_from_cdn.sh'zypper lr -d | tail -n +3 > /tmp/zypper_out.txtcat /tmp/zypper_out.txt
1 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6 | NVIDIA
2 | openSUSE-Leap-15.6-1 | openSUSE-Leap-15.6-1 | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | rpm-md | hd:/?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_0793PK7KZ3DM4PI4-0:0-part2 |
3 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
4 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss-debug | repo-non-oss-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
5 | openSUSE:repo-openh264 | repo-openh264 (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
6 | openSUSE:repo-oss | repo-oss (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
7 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug | repo-oss-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
8 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source | repo-oss-source (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
9 | openSUSE:update-backports | update-backports (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
10 | openSUSE:update-backports-debug | update-backports-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports_debug?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
11 | openSUSE:update-non-oss | update-non-oss (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
12 | openSUSE:update-non-oss-debug | update-non-oss-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/non-oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
13 | openSUSE:update-oss | update-oss (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
14 | openSUSE:update-oss-debug | update-oss-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/oss?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
15 | openSUSE:update-sle | update-sle (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
16 | openSUSE:update-sle-debug | update-sle-debug (15.6) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/sle?mediahandler=curl2 | openSUSE
17 | repo-backports-debug-update | Update repository of openSUSE Backports (Debug) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports_debug/ |
18 | repo-backports-update | Update repository of openSUSE Backports | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports/ |
19 | repo-debug | Debug Repository | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/ |
20 | repo-debug-non-oss | Debug Repository (Non-OSS) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss/ |
21 | repo-debug-update | Update Repository (Debug) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/oss/ |
22 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | Update Repository (Debug, Non-OSS) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/non-oss/ |
23 | repo-non-oss | Non-OSS Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss/ |
24 | repo-openh264 | Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Leap) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap/ |
25 | repo-oss | Main Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/ |
26 | repo-sle-debug-update | Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (Debug) | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.6/sle/ |
27 | repo-sle-update | Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle/ |
28 | repo-source | Source Repository | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/ |
29 | repo-update | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/oss |
30 | repo-update-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/non-oss/ |
CALLING FOO1 from FILE zypper_out.txt THROUGH XARGS OUTPUT
The parameter received in FOO1 is correct :
foo1 — PARAM IS : >>>1 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /opensuse/leap/15.6 | NVIDIA<<<
but the following piece of code return bad result :
read NUM ALIAS NAME URI <<< $( echo ${PARAM} | awk -F "|" '{print $1 $2 $3 $10}' )
echo .
echo "foo1 --- NUM : $NUM"
echo .
echo "foo1 --- ALIAS : $ALIAS"
echo .
echo "foo1 --- NAME : $NAME"
echo .
echo "foo1 --- URI : $URI"
foo1 --- NUM : 1
foo1 --- ALIAS : NVIDIA:repo-non-free
foo1 --- NAME : repo-non-free
foo1 --- URI : (15.6) https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6
(15.6) is missing in NAME
Thank you for helping
jcdole
October 10, 2025, 10:26am
4
user_install@15-6-G815LM-JC:~> awk --version
It has nothing to do with awk. Read how the read command (pun unintended) behaves in the bash manual (page). Count words that awk returns. You have 4 variables and 5 words.
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I concur with arvidjaar - this isn’t an awk issue, it’s the way the read command works in bash.
I would probably be inclined to write the entire parser in awk if it were me.
The other option is to look at the options for read in the bash man page, and use the -d delim argument to split it that way, rather than to use awk to do the parsing.
jcdole
October 10, 2025, 7:41pm
7
That does not works also when using an array
PARAM="1 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free (15.6) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6 | NVIDIA"
DATA=( $( echo "$PARAM" | awk -F "|" '{printf $1"\n" $2"\n" $3"\n" $10"\n" }' ) )
echo
echo "${DATA[@]}"1 NVIDIA:repo-non-free repo-non-free (15.6) https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6
andfor i in ${DATA[@]}; do echo $i; done
1
NVIDIA:repo-non-free
repo-non-free
(15.6)
https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6
And how using array is supposed to change the fact that shell sees five different words? What do you not understand in “shell splits its input in individual words separated by spaces”? How is shell supposed to guess that you want several consecutive words separated by arbitrary amount of white spaces to be one word?
jcdole
October 11, 2025, 3:38pm
9
Thank you very much. This explanation lights me up much better.
I had thought about it. I did a test while doing this:
I have solve my problem like this.
INDICE=0
while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ] ; do
echo .
echo "CURRENT : $p"
echo .
((INDICE+=1))
printf '%d : %s\n' "$INDICE" "$p"
case "$INDICE" in
"1")
NUM="$p"
;;
"2")
ALIAS="$p"
;;
"3")
NAME="$p"
;;
"4")
URI="$p"
break
;;
esac
done < "$ZYPPER_OUTPUT_TO_USE"
But I would like to have a solution in one line .
If you have a direction that I can follow, I buy it.
Thank you for helping
jcdole
October 11, 2025, 3:52pm
10
correction of the above
echo ${PARAM} | awk -F "|" '{print $1"\n" $2"\n" $3"\n" $10"\n"}' > "$ZYPPER_OUTPUT_TO_USE"
INDICE=0
while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ] ; do
echo .
echo "CURRENT : $p"
echo .
((INDICE+=1))
printf '%d : %s\n' "$INDICE" "$p"
case "$INDICE" in
"1")
NUM="$p"
;;
"2")
ALIAS="$p"
;;
"3")
NAME="$p"
;;
"4")
URI="$p"
break
;;
esac
done < "$ZYPPER_OUTPUT_TO_USE"
jcdole
October 11, 2025, 4:03pm
11
I have read the bash manual. My level of English is insufficient to understand what is written, “or rather what is not written”. Moreover, there are very few examples. I solved my problem but in a somewhat inelegant way.
Thank you very much for helping.
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IFS='|' read .....
-d separates lines, not words.
Fair, I had not used read myself and seen that the behavior was different than what I expected from a cursory reading of the man page.
jcdole
October 12, 2025, 2:36pm
14
That seems to work if you add " |" in awk print $
#!/bin/bash
#
# ~/test.sh
#
#
trimstring_sed(){
s="${1}"
s="$(printf "${s}" | sed -z 's/^[[:space:]]*//')"
s="$(printf "${s}" | sed -z 's/[[:space:]]*$//')"
echo "${s}"
return 0
}
OIFS="$IFS"
IFS='|'
echo
echo "foo | 1024 | bar (8.3) | /home/test" | awk -F '|' '{print $1" |", $2" |", $3" |", $4" |"}'
echo
read VAR1 VAR2 <<< $(echo "foo | 1024 | bar (8.3) | /home/test" | awk -F '|' '{print $1" |", $3" |"}')
echo "VAR1 : >>>$VAR1<<<"
echo "VAR2 : >>>$VAR2<<<"
VAR1=$(trimstring_sed "${VAR1}")
VAR2=$(trimstring_sed "${VAR2}")
echo "VAR1 : >>>$VAR1<<<"
echo "VAR2 : >>>$VAR2<<<"
IFS="$OIFS"
echo
echo "FINISHED"
Thank you very much @arvidjaar and @hendersj
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jcdole:
add " |" in awk print
So, you take words separated by | and print them back separated by |. Oh, well … whatever works for you.
In any case - zypper output is intended for humans, not for automated processing. If you want machine parseable zypper output - use --xmlout option.
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