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Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file
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Peng Yu |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:49:15 -0500 |
There is no such “help” list as for other GNU tools. In such case, I think
this list is used for dual purposes.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:25 AM Lorenz via bug-gawk <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
> >I want to test if the first n character of a binary file equals some
> >given string. I am not sure if awk is good at this. It seems that
> >`head` plus shell code should be easier. Is there a good way to do so
> >in awk? Thanks.
>
> you may not be aware, but this is the gawk.bugs mailing list.
> Not quite the right place for usage questions :-)
> --
>
> Lorenz
>
>
> --
Regards,
Peng
- [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file, Peng Yu, 2019/09/18
- Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file, Neil R. Ormos, 2019/09/18
- Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file, Stephane Chazelas, 2019/09/19
- Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file, Peng Yu, 2019/09/19
- Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file, Lorenz, 2019/09/19
- Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file,
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