On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:53:56 +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> I'm using OpenBSD -current (snapshots from 28 sept) on amd64.
> I'm not sure this is a bug but I can't find an explanation in the man
> page.
>
> I wanted to remove last field of a string using "-" as separator, but
> the separator seems to be reset to space ' ' after modifying $NF
>
> $ echo "www/p5-Dancer-Plugin-2019" | awk -F'-' '{print; $NF=""; print}'
> www/p5-Dancer-Plugin-2019
> www/p5 Dancer Plugin
This is due to the output field separator still being a space. The
-F option only sets the input field separator. See OFS in the awk
manual.
$ echo "www/p5-Dancer-Plugin-2019" | \
awk -F'-' 'BEGIN {OFS="-"} {print; NF--; print }'
www/p5-Dancer-Plugin-2019
www/p5-Dancer-Plugin
- todd
