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Article #463YAAB (Yet another awk bug)
From: Bill Vaughn
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1985 17:17
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1985 17:17
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DESCRIPTION:
Awk's version of 'printf' core dumps or prints garbage when a field width
variable is used. The manual page refers to printf(3S) so I assume this
feature of printf should be implemented.
REPEAT BY:
Examine the following script. Try it yourself.
Script started on Mon Sep 9 12:58:06 1985
% cat test.c
main(){printf("%*s\n",5,"a");}
% cc test.c ; a.out
a
% echo 5 |awk '{printf("%*s\n",$1,"a")}'
l$l3lll)l:lHlSl]lhl(m%n
% echo 5 |awk '{printf("%*s\n",5,"a")}'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
% ^D
script done on Mon Sep 9 13:01:08 1985
FIX:
I don't have one. Can anyone out there help?
I haven't been able to kludge around this problem as yet.
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