02-26-2012
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codemaniac
Thanks Agama for pointing this out , I was in the illusion that if there are two body {}
blocks in an awk , then second will start only if first one parses all the records of a file .
Can you give some more enlightment on how awk processes multiple body blocks . {}
I don't want to hijack this thread, so I'll just post a link to a pretty decent on-line overview of awk. If you still have questions, create a thread in shell programming and someone will be eager to expand further.
Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett
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