> https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf47 > what I am trying to do is split a string using as delimiter a pipe. I used to do that with awk, but it doesn't work anymore after someone had the great idea of substituting awk with mawk, it seems; and Hey! They could have done it with python!:
$ which awk /usr/bin/awk $ which mawk /usr/bin/mawk $ awk -W version mawk 1.3.4 20200120 Copyright 2008-2019,2020, Thomas E. Dickey Copyright 1991-1996,2014, Michael D. Brennan random-funcs: srandom/random regex-funcs: internal compiled limits: sprintf buffer 8192 maximum-integer 2147483647 $ mawk -W version mawk 1.3.4 20200120 Copyright 2008-2019,2020, Thomas E. Dickey Copyright 1991-1996,2014, Michael D. Brennan random-funcs: srandom/random regex-funcs: internal compiled limits: sprintf buffer 8192 maximum-integer 2147483647 $ How do you split a string using as delimiter a pipe these days without using a bloody hack?
