YAAB (Yet another awk bug) - Fix for '%*' bug
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Fri Sep 20 07:22:44 AEST 1985
A simple, portable workaround is to replace awk nonstatements such as
printf "%*.*s\n", a, b, c
with awk statements such as
printf "%" a "." b "s\n", c
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