Surprisingly relevant?
Surprisingly relevant?
Posted May 21, 2020 17:11 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: Surprisingly relevant? by wahern
Parent article: The state of the AWK
> That cut only accepts a single character delimiter (rather than a set like IFS in shell, or a regular expression like FS in AWK[1]), and that it can't span adjacent delimiters (like shell and AWK), is a nearly fatal flaw.
No it isn't. You're meant to call tr(1) with appropriate arguments, and pipe the result into cut. If you do that, then neither of those limitations matter.
Posted May 22, 2020 8:58 UTC (Fri)
by ptman (subscriber, #57271)
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Surprisingly relevant?
I'll just reach for this handy POSIX AWK instead