[MITgcm-devel] awk on SunOS

[chris hill]

I believe the form -F'.' should work everywhere.

Chris
Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> I have tracked down the problem with Sun's awk. Sun's /usr/bin/awk 
> thinks that the following line has a syntax error:
>                 extn=`echo $sf | $AWK -F '.' '{print $NF}'`
> In fact, if you replace it by:
>                 extn=`echo $sf | $AWK -F'.' '{print $NF}'`
> everything is fine (no space between -F and '.', the '' are not 
> necessary for Sun's awk, either). Do you think that the second line is 
> general enough for all other awks? If so, I would suggest changing that 
> so that we can go back to a generic awk in sunos_sun4u_* files.
> 
> Martin
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