On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:13:57PM -0400, Steven Blatchford wrote: > > Give this[0] a read and see what you think. > > [0] http://awk.freeshell.org/RangeOfFields >
I think their suggestions are based on 1) deciding to use a shitty version of awk, and 2) the idea that you should give a shit if someone who doesn't know awk is reading your script. I don't understand why sbase should care about either of these things.