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[bug-gawk] FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable name is too long to use in shel


From: Hyunho Cho
Subject: [bug-gawk] FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable name is too long to use in shell
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 03:23:44 +0900

hi

I think awk is mainly used in shell command line like sed

sed has all commands in one character long.

but awk FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable is too long to use in shell command line.

It is something like to use FIELDSEPARATOR for FS.

It would be good if there is a additional shortcut for long variable name like

FIELDWIDTHS -----> FW
FPAT -----> FP


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