Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file

[Lorenz]

Peng Yu wrote:
>I want to test if the first n character of a binary file equals some
>given string. I am not sure if awk is good at this. It seems that
>`head` plus shell code should be easier. Is there a good way to do so
>in awk? Thanks.

you may not be aware, but this is the gawk.bugs mailing list.
Not quite the right place for usage questions :-)
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Lorenz