Re: [9front] g

[Alex Musolino <alex@musolino.id.au>]

> > You don't need to create a new program.  Just specify the awk field
> > separator regex correctly, i.e. -F ': *'.
> 
> For scripting you do - Plan 9 permits tarded filenames.

Well, today I learnt that you can't put tabs in filenames on plan9.  I
suppose I should be proud that I've not tried such a darstadly act
until now.

Even supposing ': ' appears in some filenames, the fact that it does
*not* appear in MIME types means you can still have AWK do the dirty
work.

	file -m * | awk -F: '$NF ~ /^( *)text|application.x-sh/ {
		for(i=1;i<NF;i++){
			if(i>1)
				printf FS;
			printf "%s", $i
		}
		printf "\n"
	}'

I know McIlroy says to write new programs but in this case I think a
-t option for file(1) would be preferable over nfile, if the above
proves to be defeatable.