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Re: Read command field seperators in Bash



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@comcast.net

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.

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net


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