[Discuss] awk linux and ENVIRON

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-06-23 10:52-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> awk "END{for(env in ENVIRON) print env, " = ", ENVIRON[env]}" </dev/null 
> |less

UGH.  :(

As soon as I saw that stupidity posted for all to see, I understood
what the (nested soft quote) problem was.

awk 'END{for(env in ENVIRON) print env, " = ", ENVIRON[env]}' \
</dev/null |less

now works great as a test that all is well with ENVIRON on debian stable.

Peter, does that script also work for your awk platform?
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