Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Compiling grep-2.5.1a and during its tests, test #121 is not completed
> because of following error messages by bash:
>
> spencer1.script: line 602: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> spencer1.script: line 608: syntax error: une
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According to Richard on 5/3/2006 7:50 PM:
> Just curious: why is it that your version displays 6 within parenthesis,
> whereas mine displays 2?
The number in parenthesis matches the number of times you have rebuilt in
your local tree (also encod
On Thursday 04 May 2006 00:44, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $ foo="a b c"
> > $ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'${foo}'"}'
> > gawk: BEGIN {foo="a
> > gawk:^ unterminated string
>
> This is normal. man bash:
>
> # Word Splitting
> # The shell scans the
A little more bash syntax can quote newlines for awk.
$ foo="a
b
c"
$ lf="
"
$ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'"${foo//$lf/\\n}"'"} END {print foo}' /dev/null
a
b
c
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On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:08, Mike Stroyan wrote:
> A little more bash syntax can quote newlines for awk.
this is when you start using gawk -v foo="$foo" ...
i was using gawk as an example of my variable expansion question, not as a way
to figure out how to pass a variable into gawk
-mike
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Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 00:44, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> What do you mean by "fail"? What do you want to happen in this case?
>
> i meant gawk hates it ... not bash
Ok, and what about the second question? What are you trying to do
that you haven't figured ou
> Just curious: why is it that your version displays 6 within parenthesis,
whereas mine displays 2?
Shame on me. Decided to stop being lazy and get the answer from the
source: man bash... ;)
Curiosity satistied: please kindly disregard.
Richard
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On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:37, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 May 2006 00:44, Paul Jarc wrote:
> >> What do you mean by "fail"? What do you want to happen in this case?
> >
> > i meant gawk hates it ... not bash
>
> Ok, and what about the second que
