Subject: bug#8532: FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:49:00 +0200

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap
...
> + awk '/^ *[0-9]/ {printf "%d %d ", $2 ,NF < 5 ? $NF : $5 } END {print ""}'
> awk: cmd. line:1: /^ *[0-9]/ {printf "%d %d ", $2 ,NF < 5 ? $NF : $5 } END
> {print ""}
> awk: cmd. line:1:                                     ^ syntax error
> + sed 's/ [a-z,][a-z,]*$//' ff1

Thank you for the report.
What awk program and version are you using?
I.e., awk --version might help.
Also, what distribution are you using?

BTW, that syntax works for me using the latest gawk with or without -W compat,
and with the mawk and nawk programs from debian unstable.