Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:08:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Aaron Jeremias Luz <aaron@csh.rit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is awk(1) broken? Message-ID: <20000609200810.F233@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000608180806.A233@parish>; from mark@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:08:06PM %2B0100 References: <20000602005307.B535@parish> <20000606005300.A371@thud.rochester.rr.com> <20000608180806.A233@parish>
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:53:00AM -0400, Aaron Jeremias Luz wrote:
> >
[snip]
> > will actually interpret a filename that has an equal sign in as an
> > assignment -- even if the file exists!
> >
> > I am not able to reproduce the error above, but I believe it
> > must involve some problem with shell expansion.
>
> I tried replacing ``s=${cmd}'' with ``s=emacs'' but got the same
> results. When I get time I will look at the source for awk because
> it's behaviour is definitely different the manpage.
> >
Sorted it. The mistake I made was that without ``-v'' the ``s=${smd}''
must be *after* the awk program code:
cat INDEX | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } {if (index($1, s)...' s=${smd}
This works fine.
Thanks for the input.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Aaron
> >
> > Disclaimer: My system (a 486 running 3.1-RELEASE) is showing bit-rot,
> > and it's time for me to go to bed. :-)
>
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