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Re: GNU Awk 3.1.5 proglems with OFS
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John Cowan |
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Re: GNU Awk 3.1.5 proglems with OFS |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:19:52 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
ywd scripsit:
> address@hidden Belsk]$ awk 'BEGIN{OFS="|"};{print $0}' plik1
$0 is the input record itself, not the result of joining all the fields in
the input record with OFS. Indeed, sensible awks will not even split the
record in cases like this, where no reference is made to a numbered field.
--
John Cowan address@hidden http://ccil.org/~cowan
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
--Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)