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Re: awk FS magic
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:54:18PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> The -F option for awk is more clever than the manual says. Do we want
> the behavior, or is the manual right?
>
> I noticed a working bug in a little script that led to this suprising
> result:
>
> $ echo foo | awk -F t '{print FS}' | hexdump -C
> 00000000 09 0a |..|
> 00000002
I can not reproduce this on either -current or -6.
I would have guessed your script had a literal tab between -F and t, but
that would require unusal IFS settings as well.
Martin
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