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Re: null record separator prints only one file


From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: null record separator prints only one file
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 01:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19)

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, tolugboji wrote:


‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Monday, October 18th, 2021 at 5:42 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson 
<chris@cfajohnson.com> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, tolugboji via wrote:

I am using the following command with null record separators for a set of png 
files, and cannot

figure out why only one png file is being printed.

find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 | awk -v RS='\0' -F'[-.]' 
'{print $(NF-1), $0}' | cat -vet

How many files does this find:

find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png"

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Chris F.A. Johnson


It finds 13 files, namely

/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-05.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-06.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-07.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-08.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-09.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-10.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-11.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-12.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-13.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-1.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-2.png
/home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-3.png

And how many does this print:

find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 | awk -v RS='\0' -F'[-.]' 
'{print $(NF-1), $0}'

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   Chris F.A. Johnson


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