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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk: printing newline with last column Post 302699465 by Corona688 on Tuesday 11th of September 2012 06:42:56 PM
Old 09-11-2012
I can only assume there's something weird about your input data which doesn't post because it works perfectly here.

Perhaps your data is full of carriage returns? That can do weird things when printed to a console, because the carriage return would return the cursor to the beginning of the line.

That would fit actually. It prints 'lucille\r', returning the cursor to the beginning of the line, then prints a space, then prints 'Davis\n', which with the space is one character short of overwriting 'lucille'.

So the lesson here is, stop editing your input files in Microsoft Notepad Smilie
 

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bup-newliner(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   bup-newliner(1)

NAME
bup-newliner - make sure progress messages don't overlap with output SYNOPSIS
<any command> 2>&1 | bup newliner DESCRIPTION
bup newliner is run automatically by bup. You shouldn't need it unless you're using it in some other program. Progress messages emitted by bup (and some other tools) are of the form "Message ### content", that is, a status message containing a vari- able-length number, followed by a carriage return character and no newline. If these messages are printed more than once, they overwrite each other, so what the user sees is a single line with a continually-updating number. This works fine until some other message is printed. For example, progress messages are usually printed to stderr, but other program mes- sages might be printed to stdout. If those messages are shorter than the progress message line, the screen will be left with weird looking artifacts as the two messages get mixed together. bup newliner prints extra space characters at the right time to make sure that doesn't happen. If you're running a program that has problems with these artifacts, you can usually fix them by piping its stdout and its stderr through bup newliner. BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite. AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-newliner(1)
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