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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk, What's NF and NR ? Post 302350759 by malcomex999 on Saturday 5th of September 2009 05:10:24 AM
Old 09-05-2009
Yes, they are built in variables.
NF is for the number of fields in the current record.
NR is for the number of records in the input file.

so in the above example from you have posted...

Code:
 
awk '{print ; if (NF != 0) print ""}' infile > outfile

it prints the current record from infile and checks for the field if it is not equals to 0, then it prints empty line.

Code:
 
awk 'END {print NR}' infile

After it process all the records(END will show what has been there after the file is processed), it prints the number of records from the infile.

And read..
Code:
 
man awk

 

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If the -D option is not specified, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh93 reads and executes with the same effect as the original script. Aliases are processed as the script is read. Alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly. OPTIONS
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