Re: Possible bug in Gawk 3.1.3-7 under Fedora Core 2

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:08:27PM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:55:47AM -0600, Richard Nolde wrote:
> >     awk -v DESTDIR=$DATADIR ' \
> >         { "dirname  " $1 | getline DIRNAME
> >           "basename " $1 " .001" | getline BASENAME
> > #### >>>>> The two previous lines appear to fail <<<<< #####
> 
> This can be seen in a much simpler example:
> 
> address@hidden: echo "foo/bar" | gawk '{"dirname  " $1 | getline DIRNAME; 
> print $1,DIRNAME}'
> sh: line 1: foo/bar: No such file or directory
> foo/bar 

It is simply a precedence issue:

$ echo "foo/bar" | gawk '{("dirname  " $1) | getline DIRNAME; print $1,DIRNAME}'
foo/bar foo


Regards,

        Bill Rugolsky