From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:58:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] t5000: test tar files that overflow ustar headers
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRD43DnaiZrT4ODnT7Nm5J8q=MhtSeyK3ZNjwaTW8mdbg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160624190744.GA32118@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:56:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> > +tar_info () {
>> > +   "$TAR" tvf "$1" | awk '{print $3 " " $4}' | cut -d- -f1
>> > +}
>
>> Seeing an awk piped into cut always makes me want to suggest a
>> single sed/awk/perl invocation.
>
> I want the auto-splitting of awk, but then to auto-split the result
> using a different delimiter. Is there a not-painful way to do that in
> awk?

The awk split() function is POSIX and accepts an optional separator argument.