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Subject: [ts-7000] BusyBorks
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:39:43 -0000
--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Kevin Cozens <kevin@> wrote:
> >
> > j.chitte wrote:
> > > a little awk I had tested on x86 is returning nonsense on 
> TSlinux,
> > > when I dug in to find out why I see awk squawk:
> > > 
> > > $ tail -n1 '../htdocs/data/adc.data'| awk ' {printf "%s",$0}'
> > > 16:18:23 0.000 2.104 1.305 2.229 $
> > > $ tail -n1 '../htdocs/data/adc.data'| awk ' {printf "%s",$3}'
> > > 16:18:38 0.000 2.103 1.305 2.229 $
> > 
> > It seems as if it isn't using the space character as the field 
> separator.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > Kevin.
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks to you both. It certainly looks like BusyBorks is at fault 
> here.
> 
> it's not even the first release they put in here it's 1.00-rc2, 
and 
> as you say awk is buggy!
> 
> 
> $ echo "one:two three"| awk -F: '{print $2}'
> one:two three
> $ echo "one:two three"| awk  ' FS=":" {print $2}'
> one:two three
> 
> 
> I cant seem to get it to split the line whatever I give it.
> 
> I have seen one bug which seemed to touch on this using -F , it 
looks 
> like TS should update it if it's a prerelease and basics like this 
> dont work.
> 
> I'd rather do my work that have to rebuild the whole installation. 
> 
> Not good.
> 
> thanks again for confirming my fears ;)
> 
> /jacques
>

Sorta fixed it, got round it.

dumped in mawk from "full debian" and it works as it should .


There goes that nice tight linux installation , mawk-89k.

Since so many things depend on awk kinda working at all and busybox 
is the heart of the TSlinux system , I think this really needs to be 
corrected.

Hope it gets picked up.

regards. 



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