[Discuss] awk linux and ENVIRON

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-06-23 15:50-0700 p.willis at telus.net wrote:

> Quoting "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>:
>
>>
>> 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?
>
> Yes, that script works fine for me.
> It doesn't exit gracefully though. I need to CTRL-Z,
> to stop the job, to actually get out.
>
> Do you need to signal break to get awk to stop
> on debian/ubuntu?

No.

Alan
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