Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:13:18 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@campa.panke.de> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: bugs list FreeBSD <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: bug in awk Message-ID: <199605262213.AAA16115@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960524091252.252E-100000@dingo.enc.edu>
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awk-3.0 has this bug too.
try
$ ls -1 *.doc \
| awk -F. '{ print "cp " $1 ".doc /usr/local/man/cat1/" $1 ".1" }'
Wolfram
Charles Owens writes:
>Awk seems to have a problem, perhaps associated with the use of the FS
>variable. (Bug seen with FreeBSD 2.1-stable a la 3/16/96) Allow me to
>demonstrate:
>
>I have a directory with the following files :
> crc.doc minirb.doc rz.doc sz.doc
>
>I want to remame them to foo.1 and stick them in /usr/local/man/cat1.
>Accordingly, I do the following (which ultimately would be piped to a
>shell, of course):
>
> ls -1 *.doc \
> | awk '{FS="."; print "cp " $1 ".doc /usr/local/man/cat1/" $1 ".1" }'
>
>This produces:
> cp crc.doc.doc /usr/local/man/cat1/crc.doc.1
> cp minirb.doc /usr/local/man/cat1/minirb.1
> cp rz.doc /usr/local/man/cat1/rz.1
> cp sz.doc /usr/local/man/cat1/sz.1
>
>Note the problem that the first line has. This behavior is repeatable,
>using different field separators, etc. I'm no awk expert, but it sure
>looks like a bug to me...
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