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

[Peng Yu]

There is no such “help” list as for other GNU tools. In such case, I think
this list is used for dual purposes.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:25 AM Lorenz via bug-gawk <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Peng Yu wrote:
> >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? Thanks.
>
> you may not be aware, but this is the gawk.bugs mailing list.
> Not quite the right place for usage questions :-)
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> Lorenz
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Regards,
Peng