Re: Read command field seperators in Bash



On Sunday 14 February 2010 17:38:48 Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20100214_100441, John Salmon wrote:
Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command
(Debian Lenny)? I could use gawk to do what I need but, since gawk isn't
installed in the Lenny distribution, I'de rather use something that is.

John Salmon
salmonjj@xxxxxxxxxxx

gawk may not be the default awk workalike in lenny, but it is
certainly available in lenny, at least it was a couple of months ago,
just before I switched to squeeze.

It is the Lenny default on my system. I.e. it is installed, but I hadn't
asked for it.

lisi@Tux:~$ aptitude search awk
v awk -
p cl-awk - Common Lisp package with the
features of AWK and
p dpkg-awk - Gawk script to
parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,availa
i A gawk - GNU awk, a pattern scanning and
processing langua
p gawk-doc - Documentation for GNU awk
i mawk - a pattern scanning and text
processing language
p nighthawk - An improved version of
Paradroid - a strategic sh
p original-awk - The original awk described
in "The AWK Programmin
lisi@Tux:~$

Lisi


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