bug in ksh on UNIX-PC (?)
Marnix van Ammers
vanam at pttesac.UUCP
Sun Jan 31 14:39:43 AEST 1988
# On the UNIX-PC (ver 3.51), the korn shell causes awk to complain
# when run on this script
# but the bourne shell works fine. Both the bourne and the korn
# shell work fine on this script in our 3B20 (System V rel 2.1.1).
Test_String="
This is line 1
and this is line two
and this here is line three."
Results=`echo "$Test_String" | \
awk " NF > 5 { print \\$6 } "`
# Trouble is here -----^^
# The double backslashes are converted to one when the doube quotes
# are evaluated and to zero when the grave accents are evaluated.
# The UNIX-PC ksh ends up passing the (null) 6th shell parameter
# instead of '$6' .
echo "$Results"
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