Thomas Dickey (dic...@his.com) wrote on 10 August 2010 20:20:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>>
>>> mawk cannot handle records separated by nulls, such as for example the
>>> ones generated by find. Only the first record is handled:
>>>
>>> % mkdir mawk-fails
>>> % cd mawk-fails
>>> %mawk-fails touch a b c
>>> %mawk-fails find -printf "%p\0"|mawk 'BEGIN {RS="\0"} {print}'
>>> ..
>>
>> It works with upstream mawk (just tested mawk-1.3.4-20100625).
>>
>> This is a duplicate of #135614
There your say that processing nulls is a gawk extension. However I
don't see it in the list of extensions of gawk manpage. It mentions
only the ability to split a string with the null string. Further, the
null string is not "\0".
>...however, #355966 is unrelated to this additional report about embedded
>nulls.
It's related to RS, which is where I stumbled on the nulls.
Anyway, it'd be quite useful to have this in Debian. mawk is a lot
faster than gawk...
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