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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - How to preserve whitespace? Post 302767375 by jnojr on Wednesday 6th of February 2013 06:28:45 PM
Old 02-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
With GNU awk >= 4 you could try something like this:
I'm on a Mac, and have to use the BSD tools that come with OSX, as I could not count on GNU tools being available :-(
 

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NETWOX(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NETWOX(1)

NAME
netwox - examples/tools of the network library netwib VERSION
The version installed on this system is 5.36.0. IMPORTANT
Manpage do not contain a lot of information. Rather read netwox-5.36.0-doc_html.tgz. SYNOPSIS
netwox number [ parameters... ] netwox number --help netwox number --help2 netwox PRESENTATION
Toolbox netwox helps to find and solve network problems. It provides 222 tools : - udp/tcp clients/servers - spoofing - sniffing - address conversion - etc. Netwox is mainly oriented towards network administrators and security auditors. Some tools are only a simplified implementation, while others are very sophisticated. Netwox is available under the GNU GPL license. DESCRIPTION
number number of the tool to use parameters parameters for the chosen tool number. Parameter --help shows help. Parameter --help2 shows description. When using netwox without number and parameters, it enters interactive help mode. In this mode, the user has to select a category by press- ing a key. Then by choosing a tool number, its corresponding usage is displayed. Note: netwag is easier than interactive help mode. EXAMPLES
netwox 23 --help display simple help for tool number 23 netwox 23 --help2 display full description of tool 23. It also display its description. netwox 23 run tool 23 netwox 23 --extended run tool 23 with --extended parameter netwox 23 -e run tool 23 with -e parameter (synonym for --extended) All the tools are not described in this manpage. Reading netwox-5.36.0-doc_html.tgz is recommended. SEE ALSO
netwib(3) netwag(1) 02/11/2008 NETWOX(1)
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