[BusyBox] awk bug in busybox 1.00-rc2

Henry Pan pank at pank.org
Sun Aug 1 09:28:57 UTC 2004


awk in busybox 1.00-rc2 does not accept "\n"

for example
# echo 1 2 | awk '{print $1"\n"$2}'
1
2
# echo 1 2 | busybox awk '{print $1"\n"$2}'
awk: cmd. line:1: Unexpected end of string

I confirm this problem only exist in busybox 1.00-rc2, but not in older version




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