Hey Rasmus,
Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> writes: >> So I suggest you introduce something on the line of: >> >> ... >> num_chars=12 >> ... >> --abbrev=$num_chars > > I considered that, but it becomes quite ugly since it needs to get into > the awk script (as a 13, though perhaps we could get awk to do the +1, I > don't really speak awk), where we'd then need to use " instead of ' and > then escape the $ that are to be interpreted by awk and not the shell. No need for that, awk can read (and use) environment variables... > So I think it's more readable with hardcoding and comments explaining > why they are there; should anyone ever want to change 12. ... so that in practice you only need to change 13 to var+1 and 12 to $var. Cheers, Nico -- Modern, affordable, Swiss Virtual Machines. Visit www.datacenterlight.ch
