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use eval to run commands generated by awk

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Here’s one way to generate a set of commands with awk, and then run them in a loop with eval. 

# cat snippet
field1 /mnt/somedir/785/8785/948785 41 /mnt/somedir2/785/8785/948785 1 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/791/8791/948791 2 /mnt/somedir2/791/8791/948791 6 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/924/8924/948924 2 /mnt/somedir2/924/8924/948924 23 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/993/8993/948993 2 /mnt/somedir2/993/8993/948993 19876 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/3/9003/949003 8 /mnt/somedir2/3/9003/949003 273 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/70/9070/949070 341 /mnt/somedir2/70/9070/949070 6 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/517/4517/954517 2 /mnt/somedir2/517/4517/954517 14 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/699/4699/954699 210 /mnt/somedir2/699/4699/954699 1 2
field1 /mnt/somedir/726/4726/954726 1 /mnt/somedir2/726/4726/954726 6 2

Now use awk to get the output you want and generate commands. Use a forloop and eval to run them.

# for i in `awk '{if($3>$5) print "rsync -a --ignore-existing "$2"/ "$4}' left.compare.sorted  `; do echo $i; eval $i; done;
rsync -a --ignore-existing /mnt/somedir/70/9070/949070/ /mnt/somedir2/70/9070/949070
rsync -a --ignore-existing /mnt/somedir/699/4699/954699/ /mnt/somedir2/699/4699/954699
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Linux rebuild software RAID1

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Set the bash field separator to newline:

IFS="
"

See what disk and partitions are currently up, then generate commands to re-add the missing disk and partitions, then run them:

for i in `cat /proc/mdstat | grep md | cut -d [ -f1 | sed -e 's/\(md[0-9]\).*\(sd[a-z][0-9]\)/mdadm --add \/dev\/\1 \/dev\/\2/' | sed -e 's/sdb/sda/'`;  do eval $i; done;

TODO: make it determine which disk to add (/dev/sda or /dev/sdb)