Re: Read command field seperators in Bash
On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:11:25 Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:51:16 -0500 (EST), Lisi wrote:
> > 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@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.
> >
> > It is the Lenny default on my system. I.e. it is installed, but I hadn't
> > asked for it.
>
> awk is a virtual package provided by both the real package mawk and the
> real package gawk. On my Lenny system, mawk is installed, but gawk is not.
> Most awk scripts will work fine with mawk. But occasionally an awk script
> will use features that don't work with the mawk implementation of awk but
> will work with the gawk implementation of awk.
>
> aptitude install mawk_ gawk
>
> will replace mawk with gawk. It is possible to have both installed,
> in which case gawk seems to override mawk.
Mmm. But I have only gawk, and installed neither. Nor any other awk. It
probably depends which set-up one asks for during installation.
Lisi
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