+++ Marc Haber [26/01/07 16:56 +0100]:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:27:37PM -0500, Mike O'Connor wrote:diff -ru nagios2-2.6.orig/debian/nagios2-common.nagios2.init nagios2-2.6/debian/nagios2-common.nagios2.init --- nagios2-2.6.orig/debian/nagios2-common.nagios2.init 2007-01-23 13:26:04.000000000 -0500 +++ nagios2-2.6/debian/nagios2-common.nagios2.init 2007-01-23 13:26:17.000000000 -0500 @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ exit 6 fi-THEPIDFILE="$(grep lock_file $NAGIOSCFG | awk '{print $2}' FS="=")"+THEPIDFILE="$(grep lock_file $NAGIOSCFG | awk 'BEGIN{FS="="}{print $2}')"Would you be satisfied with awk -v FS="=" '{print $2}' as well? I seem to have inadvertently used a construction that is not awk standard, but mawk and gawk handle it just fine. The -v stuff should be standard-compliant, isn't it? Greetings Marc
yeah, works for me:
:) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ readlink -f (which awk)
/usr/bin/original-awk
:) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ awk -v FS=":" '/stew/{print $2}'</etc/passwd
x
:) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $
thanks, stew
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