Re: [bug-gawk] The best way to test the first n character in a file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Peng Yu <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:35:15 -0500
> 
> I want to test if the first n character of a binary file equals some
> given string. I am not sure if awk is good at this. It seems that
> `head` plus shell code should be easier. Is there a good way to do so
> in awk?

No.