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From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
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Subject: User error or awk bug?
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Hi Hackers,
    While testing out something to emulate $(abspath ) in GNU make
3.81+, I tried wrote the following in awk:

    gsub (/\/{2,}/, "")

    I expect it to squish all duplicate `/' in $0. Interestingly
enough, it doesn't match my expected behavior:

[gcooper@optimus ~]$ SLASHES="////////" ; test "$(echo "$SLASHES" |
awk '{ gsub (/\/{2,}/, ""); print }')" = "$SLASHES"; echo $?
0

    I've tried this same code on RHEL 4.6, Gentoo Linux, and of course
my CURRENT box, and the results are the same. So, my question is: did
I do something wrong, or accidentally stumble on an *awk bug?
Thanks!
-Garrett