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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers behaviour of awk Post 302602160 by Scott on Sunday 26th of February 2012 01:11:07 PM
Old 02-26-2012
Refer to the awk man page:

Code:
       A pattern-action statement has the form

              pattern { action }

       A missing { action } means print the line; a missing pattern always matches.  Pattern-action  statements
       are separated by newlines or semicolons.

"1" is the pattern which evaluates to true. As no "action" is specified, the line is printed.

It's equivalent to:
Code:
1 == 1 { print }

or
Code:
1 { print }

or just
Code:
{ print }

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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