I agree with what you say and I know for a fact that some sed's do process that last line, other's don't so as you say the results are unspecified. However, I have never come across a version of awk that does not process that last unterminated line, and I am wondering why that might be. Even oawk on Solaris will process it:
Could it perhaps be that awk is almost 'obliged' to process that last line anyway because of the concept of RS, the input record separator which can be set to almost any character. So what might be a consequence of this is that any characters that follow that last RS, should be interpreted as being part of the last record? Otherwise it should have been called RT (Record Terminator)?
Another example would be that if the were not the case then from a UNIX point of view what this printf produces is a valid UNIX text file, but from an awk point of view - if you compare that to the situation where RS is a regular newline - this would be an "unterminated" last record
After all that last newline is not a file terminator, but a line terminator..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-19-2012 at 09:55 PM..
Hi. Im using cat to output the contents of a file, then piping it to my while read loop.In this loop variables get assigned values. However when i try to use the variables outside the loop their values has been reset.I understand about subshells etc. but I have no idea how to "preserve" the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I did not understand why the following did not work out as I expected:
find . -name "pqp.txt" | grep -v "Permission"
I thought I would be able to catch whichever paths containing my pqp.txt file without receiving the display of messages such as "find: cannot access... Permisson... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was wondering why ls * | echo does not print the contents of the directory to the screen? The way I see it, ls * returns a whole lot of information, and then we pipe all this info to echo, so surely it should all come to our screen!
Is there a serious flaw in my understanding?
... (3 Replies)
Not sure why this does not work in bash:
tail -f err.log |&
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
I am attempting to continuously read a file that is being updated by doing a "tail -f" on the file and piping the output to stdin which can then be read by the next shell command
Thnx (4 Replies)
Hi All...
Does anyone know how to pipe the output of a "select" statement from a call to Oracle to a file?
ANy ideas woule be greatly appreciated!
Code is as below...
echo "producing CSV file 2..."
sqlplus -s $username/$password@$database<<EOF
set serveroutput on size 1000000
set... (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to convert the below Csh code into Perl.
But i have the following error.
Can any expert help ?
Error:
ls: *tac: No such file or directory
Csh
set $ST_file = `ls -rt *$testid*st*|tail -1`;
Perl
my $ST_file = `ls -rt *$testid*st*|tail -1`; (10 Replies)
Hi all. I am using procmail to deliver an email to a script I am developing. Procmail delivers the email to the script on standard input. I imagine this is the same as piping input from a command into the script. Hence I've been testing my script by running
echo 'test' | sms-autosend-backup.sh
... (2 Replies)
Ok, so there is a perl script that runs as a server, on my local host. It tells me which port to use. I want to pipe that output into my browser so I can do the whole thing with a single command. The problem is, I think, that the program doesn't actually exit cause it's running a server, so...... (6 Replies)
Basically I was wondering if any of you know how to pipe the output of ls to a text file? so in my shell script one of the lines is ls but i want to pipe it into a file called directory listing.
Cheers.
I have tried ls | Directorylisting.txt
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Whenever the below command is being executed by a scheduler at UNIX environment, we are getting below error
cd /tmp/log
find . -ignore_readdir_race ! -name . -prune -iname 'XYZ*' -type f -mtime +4 -printf "%f\n"
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paps
PAPS(1) General Commands Manual PAPS(1)NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do rtl layout.
--paper ps
Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.
--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--encoding=ENCODING
Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)