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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: bin/3387: sh mis-interpret the file name / awk failure 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3387; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>, fenner@parc.xerox.com,
        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3387: sh mis-interpret the file name / awk failure 
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 01:29:48 PDT

 John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> wrote:
 >what I wouldn't object to is another flag that strips that white space
 >from around the fields...
 
 Like "-F'[ /]'" as Joerg suggested?
 
 sundae% uname -v | awk -F'[ /]' '{printf ">>" $(NF-1) "<<"}'
 >>SUNDAE<<sundae% 
 
 Of course, this is non-portable due to the $(NF-1) requirement.
 
   Bill