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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk problem: How to express the single quote(') by using awk print function Post 302359286 by radoulov on Tuesday 6th of October 2009 07:23:19 AM
Old 10-06-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jp2542a
Why would you want to make and execute txt.sh when

Code:
awk '{print $1"\t"}' `ls *.txt`

will do the same thing without all the system overhead?
That command will fail if any of the filenames contain embedded newlines or other "pathological" characters.

And the ls command and the sub-shell are unnecessary anyway.

Use shell globbing instead:

Code:
awk '{ print $1 "\t" }' *.txt

 

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gensprep(8)							 ICU 50.1.2 Manual						       gensprep(8)

NAME

       gensprep - compile StringPrep data from files filtered by filterRFC3454.pl

SYNOPSIS

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