Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] t5000: test tar files that overflow ustar headers

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:56:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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+tar_info () {
+   "$TAR" tvf "$1" | awk '{print $3 " " $4}' | cut -d- -f1
+}

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Seeing an awk piped into cut always makes me want to suggest a
single sed/awk/perl invocation.

I want the auto-splitting of awk, but then to auto-split the result
using a different delimiter. Is there a not-painful way to do that in
awk?

The awk split() function is POSIX and accepts an optional separator argument.