Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:52:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: for awk experts only. Message-ID: <20081130065209.GA98518@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20081130061731.0691f5ea.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20081130045944.GA94896@thought.org> <20081130061104.f595db7e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081130061731.0691f5ea.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:17:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Replying to my own message: I found a point for improvement.
> Why use grep when awk can grep by itself?
>
> % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf("%s %s\n", $4, gsub("noun", "n.", $3)); }'
>
> Ah, much better. :-)
>
Thanks for the clue[s], :)
$3 isn't only an lvalue, it's a constant. My bad in my first try.
What you have above prints:
foot 1 // noun
foot 0 // verb
so doesn't work entirely, but is a good start. (BTW, man gsub turned up
nothing, so I'm assuming thhat gsub it part of awk. And [gn]awk.)
Um, no, same with nawk, gawk, awk.
gary
>
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