On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:56:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > +tar_info () {
>> > + "$TAR" tvf "$1" | awk '{print $3 " " $4}' | cut -d- -f1
>> > +}
>
>> Seeing an awk piped into cut always makes me want to suggest a
>> single sed/awk/perl invocation.
>
> I want the auto-splitting of awk, but then to auto-split the result
> using a different delimiter. Is there a not-painful way to do that in
> awk?
The awk split() function is POSIX and accepts an optional separator argument.
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