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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:42:58 +0200
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Subject: Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash
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Hi;

gawk 3.1.8

bash:

[~]> echo '\\' | gawk '{gsub("\\\\","\\\\",$0); print($0);}'
\\\\

zsh 4.3.12-dev-1

[~]> echo '\\' | gawk '{gsub("\\\\","\\\\",$0); print($0);}'
\\

Ideas?

P.S: gaw 4.0.0 is buggy with this gsub command and output will differ.

Regards,
ismail

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