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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting columns in file Post 302862733 by newbie2010 on Friday 11th of October 2013 11:09:07 AM
Old 10-11-2013
What is the ? in awk
I am not sure what the ? is in awk. So far as I was aware it was a conditional operator that means if condition x is true then execute it. Then if it is not true, it executes the next condition. However, in the code

Code:
awk '{print $0,(NR>1?$NF-$(NF-1):j)}'

This does not seem to be the case, as isn't it using j as a variable to accumlate a line number? Or am I reading this wrong?
 

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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

pr

PR(1)							      General Commands Manual							     PR(1)

NAME

       pr - print file

SYNOPSIS

       pr [ option ...	] [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Pr  produces  a printed listing of one or more files on its standard output.  The output is separated into pages headed by a date, the name
       of the file or a specified header, and the page number.	With no file arguments, pr prints its standard input.

       Options apply to all following files but may be reset between files:

       -n     Produce n-column output.

       +n     Begin printing with page n.

       -b     Balance columns on last page, in case of multi-column output.

       -d     Double space.

       -en    Set the tab stops for input text every n spaces.

       -h     Take the next argument as a page header (file by default).

       -in    Replace sequences of blanks in the output by tabs, using tab stops set every n spaces.

       -f     Use formfeeds to separate pages.

       -ln    Take the length of the page to be n lines instead of the default 66.

       -m     Print all files simultaneously, each in one column.

       -n     Number the lines of each file.

       -on    Offset the left margin n character positions.

       -sc    Separate columns by the single character c instead of aligning them with white space.  A missing c is taken to be a tab.

       -t     Do not print the 5-line header or the 5-line trailer normally supplied for each page.

       -wn    For multi-column output, take the width of the page to be n characters instead of the default 72.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/pr.c

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), lp(1)

																	     PR(1)
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