On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:54:18PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote: > The -F option for awk is more clever than the manual says. Do we want > the behavior, or is the manual right? > > I noticed a working bug in a little script that led to this suprising > result: > > $ echo foo | awk -F t '{print FS}' | hexdump -C > 00000000 09 0a |..| > 00000002
I can not reproduce this on either -current or -6. I would have guessed your script had a literal tab between -F and t, but that would require unusal IFS settings as well. Martin