Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:27:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: bugs list FreeBSD <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org> Subject: bug in awk Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960524091252.252E-100000@dingo.enc.edu>
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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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