Re: Suspected bug in awk

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re the below, it's a bug in 3.1.7 that is fixed in 3.1.8.
Alternatively, if you can live in the C locale:

        export LC_ALL=C         # place into .bashrc

then it will also work as expected.  Ubuntu needs to move to the
current version of gawk; it wouldn't hurt to file a report with them.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:23:42 +0700
> From: Chris Savery <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Suspected bug in awk
>
> Hello,
> I've tried everything and looked in several places to try and find why
> I'm getting this behavior.
> I want to use printf to truncate a string but it never works.
>
> Simple demo:
>
> echo "HellooThere" | awk '{printf "%.5s",$0}'
>
> prints
>
> HellooThere
>
> The . specifier for %s is supposed to truncate but seems to not work.
>
> Ubuntu 10.10
> GNU Awk 3.1.7
>
> Thanks for any input.
> Chris :)