Re: Broken awk 3.0.4

[Darrel Hankerson]

Olivier Lefevre" <address@hidden> writes:

   If the current dir is
   /sys/dev/src/screener, then echo `pwd` | nawk '{FS="/"; print NF}'
   returns 5 under Solaris, as you would expect, but 1 under Cygwin,
   which is the Solaris awk result.

Read the "Field Splitting Summary" of the Gawk manual ("Effective Awk
Programming"), which begins:

      According to the POSIX standard, `awk' is supposed to behave as if
   each record is split into fields at the time that it is read.  In
   particular, this means that you can change the value of `FS' after a
   record is read, and the value of the fields (i.e. how they were split)
   should reflect the old value of `FS', not the new one.

--Darrel Hankerson address@hidden