Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:36:24 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Cc: lconrad@Go2France.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk problem Message-ID: <8639uiwjuf.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8639uipjdv.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:28:12 -0700") References: <201008131723.AA679149726@mail.Go2France.com> <8639uipjdv.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> Len> awk 'FS="." { print $(NF-1)"."$NF }'
>
> Len> rm90.steampick.info.rm90.steampick.info
> Len> lanejive.info
> Len> govdelivery.com
> Len> orangetalon.info
> Len> carespecial.info
>
> Yes, that would be the expected behavior.
>
> You need to set the FS *before* processing the first line.
>
> Either use -F ., or a BEGIN block.
Then it's already fixed in 8.1-RELEASE by update in r201951.
contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES:
Nov 26, 2009:
fixed a long-standing issue with when FS takes effect. a
change to FS is now noticed immediately for subsequent splits.
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