From: Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:27:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unset TZ in t5000
Message-ID: <20050613172757.41222.qmail@web41215.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <42ADAC4D.7050408@lsrfire.ath.cx>

--- Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
> What kind of AWK is that?  The One True AWK certainly has a length
> function for strings and POSIX mandates it, too, so it's not a GNUism.
> 
> The expression
> 
>    length($5)<7 ? $5":00" : $5
> 
> (where $5 is a time value) is there to cope with tars that format the
> time like hh:mm instead of the expected hh:mm:ss.  If you have to remove
> the call to "length", please replace the thing with something
> equivalent, like
> 
>    match($5, /:.*:/) ? $5 : $5":00"
> 
> or similar, instead of simply dropping that test.

Hi Rene,

I'll test your suggestion later tonight (US time) when I get home from work.  Sorry I
don't know much about awk. (I usually break out perl for any job I used to give awk) When
I ran the t5000 script in --verbose mode, all I could see was awk complaining about the
length directive.

It *is* possible that there's some kind of quoting/character escape problem which Linux
tolerates but is causing the syntax error on my home system. (It's Mac OS 10.4.1/Darwin)

Thanks,

--Mark