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AWK invocations for ASCII-delimited operation
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awk-ad
#!/bin/bash
# ASCII-delimited input and output
awk -vFS="\x1F" -vRS="\x1E" -vOFS="\x1F" -vORS="\x1E" "$@"
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awk-ad-in
#!/bin/bash
# ASCII-delimited input
awk -vFS="\x1F" -vRS="\x1E" "$@"
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awk-ad-out
#!/bin/bash
# ASCII-delimited output
awk -vOFS="\x1F" -vORS="\x1E" "$@"
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ashb commented Aug 22, 2016

\x30 is 0 - you want -vOFS="\x1F" -vORS="\x1E"

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Dammit, that does explain something odd I was seeing :-) Nice catch!

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