-F option for awk

[George Turczynski]

In article <491 at llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw at ramius.ocf.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw) writes:
> When awk'ing something like a passwd file, where the reasonable choice
> of field separator is something other than whitespace, how do you 
> let a line simply fall through and be printed unchanged?
> 

I must have misunderstood your question.  This works fine:

	tmp: awk -F: '{ if( $1 == "nobody" ) print }' /etc/passwd
	nobody:*:-2:-2::/:

This is under SunOS 4.0.3, and works for both sh & csh.  I don't know
what you're running, but it might have been useful to know >:-}

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