awk problem

[Anonymous]

merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> Len> awk 'FS="." { print $(NF-1)"."$NF }'
>
> Len> rm90.steampick.info.rm90.steampick.info
> Len> lanejive.info
> Len> govdelivery.com
> Len> orangetalon.info
> Len> carespecial.info
>
> Yes, that would be the expected behavior.
>
> You need to set the FS *before* processing the first line.
>
> Either use -F ., or a BEGIN block.

Then it's already fixed in 8.1-RELEASE by update in r201951.

  contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES:
    Nov 26, 2009:
      fixed a long-standing issue with when FS takes effect.  a
      change to FS is now noticed immediately for subsequent splits.