mark david mcCreary wrote:
LISTDESCRIPTION=`/bin/echo $MYLISTSDATA | /usr/bin/awk -F\t '{print
$8}'`
What's the difference between passing in an = symbol and the \t ?
From the gawk man page
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Command-Line-Field-Separator.html
As a special case, in compatibility mode (see Options
<http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Options.html#Options>), if the
argument to -F is `t', then |FS| is set to the TAB character. If you type
`-F\t' at the shell, without any quotes, the `\' gets deleted, so awk figures
that you really want your fields to be separated with tabs and not `t's. Use
`-v FS="t"' or `-F"[t]"' on the command line if you really do want to separate
your fields with `t's.
--
Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch(_at_)atmedia(_dot_)net
http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/
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