alex lupu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> alex lupu wrote:
>>
> >> ...
> []$ cat tempx.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS=".so"} ; {print $1}'
> >> ...
> >> Is there a problem with GNU gawk and/or my system or maybe with me?
>
>
>>> You.
>>> echo libsndfile.so.1.0.25 | sed -r 's/(.*)\.so.*/\1/'
>>> Or
>>> for f in `cat tempx.txt`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/(.*)\.so.*/\1/'; done
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>
> The subject question has been, is there a bug in gawk?
>
> As I showed, gawk can take a bunch of characters as field separator:
>
> awk 'BEGIN {FS="YYY"} ; {print $1}' ...
>
> but NOT
>
> awk 'BEGIN {FS=".so"} ;
>
> NOR
>
> awk 'BEGIN {FS="\.so"}
See if awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\.so"}... works for you.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Splitting-Summary.html
First paragraph.
-- Bruce
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