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Re: [bug-gawk] regexp that cannot match anything
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Andrew J. Schorr |
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Re: [bug-gawk] regexp that cannot match anything |
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Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:46:30 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:48:23AM +0200, Denis Shirokov wrote:
> I try to read using getline operator whole file as the single string.
...
> BINMODE="rw"; RS="\\x00{0}"
> getline d < "filename"
If you're able to use the gawk 4.1 prerelease, I recommend using
that with the readfile extension:
bash-4.1$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 10475 Aug 2 11:30 /etc/passwd
bash-4.1$ gawk -l readfile -v filename=/etc/passwd 'BEGIN {d =
readfile(filename); print length(d)}'
10475
Regards,
Andy