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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK: pattern not properly stored in variable? Post 302348906 by herrsimon on Sunday 30th of August 2009 11:07:01 AM
Old 08-30-2009
Hi Scott,

I initially also typed "\\." but it doesn't seem necessary with my interpreter (mawk on Debian Lenny).


Regards,

Simon
 

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BLKRAWVERIFY(1) 														   BLKRAWVERIFY(1)

NAME
blkrawverify - verifies an output file produced by blkparse SYNOPSIS
blkrawverify <dev> [<dev>...] DESCRIPTION
The blkrawverify utility can be used to verify data retrieved via blktrace. It will check for valid event formats, forward progressing sequence numbers and time stamps, also does reasonable checks for other potential issues within individual events. Errors found will be tracked in <dev>.verify.out. AUTHORS
blkparse was written by Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott. This man page was created from the blktrace documentation by Bas Zoetekouw. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. This manual page was created for Debian by Bas Zoetekouw. It was derived from the documentation provided by the authors and it may be used, distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. On Debian systems, the text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. SEE ALSO
btrace (8), blktrace (8), blkparse (1), verify_blkparse (1), btt (1) blktrace git-20070306202522 March 6, 2007 BLKRAWVERIFY(1)
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