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sparc 8.1.7: awk printf() doesn't like variable field widths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jul 16 09:37:54 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:37:41 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Yet another bug in the Solaris 2.5.1 awk:
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] /var/log> which awk nawk
/usr/bin/awk
/usr/bin/nawk
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] /var/log> lptest 2 4 | awk '{printf "%*d\n", NR, NR}'
2
2
2
2
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] /var/log> lptest 2 4 | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk '{printf "%*d\n", NR, NR}'
1
2
3
4
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] /var/log> lptest 2 4 | nawk '{printf "%*d\n", NR, NR}'
1
2
3
4
The man page indicates it uses printf(3s) format strings, which include
variable field widths, but it doesn't seem to work.
nawk and /usr/xpg4/bin/awk seem to work fine.
--jhawk
