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From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: User error or awk bug?
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> wrote:
> Try quoting the "/\/{2,}/" in your call to gsub. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Georg=
e

    Doesn't work :(...:

nawk (FreeBSD) --
[gcooper@optimus ~]$ echo //////// | awk '{ gsub ("//{2,}/", "/"); print }'
////////

gawk (Gentoo Linux) --

gcooper@orangebox /scratch/ltp/scripts $ echo //////// | awk '{ gsub
("//{2,}/", "/"); print }'
////////

Thanks!
-Garrett