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Re:Skip grep, use awk by codesnik on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:09AM (#14696287)
what's the reason of using -F option? -a defaults " " separator, which already emulates awk behavior. If I'm not wrong, only difference between perl -aF"/\s+/" and perl -a is treating of leading whitespace in lines
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Re:Skip grep, use awk by Ultimatt on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:55PM (#14698836)
To show you could use other separators defined by any regex you like.
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