field separation not using awk -f option
 

Hi all,
my problem is to separate two fields which are separated by = not using the awk command..
suppose if I give " -dir=/usr/home/ " this line I should be able to get "-dir" and "/usr/home" separately. in this case = is the separation character. so is there any way I can separate two fields not using awk -f command..???

Moin,

this is because the -f option of awk does NOT define field separators. It defines a script to execute in awk. You want to use -F.

If you do not want to use awk, you could use cut: Jan