Re: [9front] this history(1) is scratched

[Eckard Brauer <eckard.brauer@gmx.de>]

> Relatedly -- one thing I've repeatedly found myself wanting in
> awk is a way to say "give me all text between fields $A..$B,
> without modification" so, for example:
>
> 	label <and some file path with tabs, spaces, and other junk>
>
> would be easy to handle; something like:
>
> 	map[$1] = $2..$NF

hmm, not exactly what you want, but usually i do such things with
setting different RS, e.g.

awk -v RS='[<>]' '!(NR%2)'

but just noticed that p9 awk doesn't take RS as a regex, as gnu-awk
does. So i'd maybe translate one of them using tr before (also noticed
that escape sequences don't work with tr, however, this works somehow),
e.g.

echo 'outside<and inside>angle brackets' | tr '<>' '

' | awk '!(NR%2)'