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Suspected bug in awk
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From: |
Chris Savery |
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Subject: |
Suspected bug in awk |
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Date: |
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:23:42 +0700 |
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Hello,
I've tried everything and looked in several places to try and find why
I'm getting this behavior.
I want to use printf to truncate a string but it never works.
Simple demo:
echo "HellooThere" | awk '{printf "%.5s",$0}'
prints
HellooThere
The . specifier for %s is supposed to truncate but seems to not work.
Ubuntu 10.10
GNU Awk 3.1.7
Thanks for any input.
Chris :)
- Suspected bug in awk,
Chris Savery <=