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Re: [bug-gawk] FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable name is too long to use in s
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Andrew J. Schorr |
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Re: [bug-gawk] FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable name is too long to use in shell |
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Mon, 7 May 2018 09:39:45 -0400 |
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Hi,
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 03:23:44AM +0900, Hyunho Cho wrote:
> I think awk is mainly used in shell command line like sed
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> sed has all commands in one character long.
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> but awk FIELDWIDTHS builtin variable is too long to use in shell command line.
Why is this variable "too long to use" in the shell command line?
Is this a shell limitation, or are you simply saying that you prefer
not to type such long variable names? Awk has many more features than sed,
so it would be impossible to specify every capability using a single
character.
Regards,
Andy