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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Explanation of print statement - awk Post 302764757 by theflamingmoe on Thursday 31st of January 2013 11:23:07 PM
Old 02-01-2013
Thanks Corona688, you answered my question perfectly. The comma in the statement "OFS,$i" was in the original script, but it's probably a typo. I'll check it out. Thanks again Smilie

TheFlamingMoe

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Are you sure that's OFS,$i and not OFS $i ? Two things into a single %s is a syntax error as far as I know.
Checked out the above query. The awk statement doesn't work without the comma. Add the comma and things work perfectly. So I guess it's not a typo!!!
 

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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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