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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting The question of FS of AWK Post 302231588 by Smiling Dragon on Tuesday 2nd of September 2008 06:37:14 PM
Old 09-02-2008
It's because you aren't protecting the entire line from the shell. You should be moving the single quotes (') to encompase the entire awk expression, not just the {print} part.
Each layer of interpretation removes one level of escape, so direct commandline, strips one \, the awk command strips the next, leaving you looking for a . character.
In the shell script, the first \ is stripped, leaving \\. This is passed to sh, which strips another \, leaving \. Awk then strips the last one off.
 

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ECM-COMPRESS(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   ECM-COMPRESS(1)

NAME

       ecm-compress - selectively strips error correction codes from CD images

SYNOPSIS

       ecm-compress  cdimagefile [ecmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       ecm-compress  reduces  the  size  of a CD image file (ISO, BIN, CDI, NRG, CCD or any other format that uses raw sectors) by eliminating the
       Error Correction Codes (EEC) and Error Detection Codes (EDC) from each sector when possible.

       Since the data ecm-compress strips is usually nearly impossible to compress with traditional tools, the resulting ECM  file  will  compress
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       Hard drives already have mechanisms to protect data integrity, EEC/EDC data can thus be discarded safely.

       This data can then be generated again using the command ecm-uncompress.

       Because	ecm-compress only discards EDC/ECC data for sectors where it's verifiably possible to recreate that data, the process is lossless.
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EXAMPLES

       ecm-compress foo.bin
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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