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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inaccurate awk response Post 302895266 by SkySmart on Sunday 30th of March 2014 03:34:51 PM
Old 03-30-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
A few comments:
- How do you see two conditions are met? There's only one output line in your sample.
- && /./ will be TRUE for any non-empty line, as . matches any char.
- The "i" you refer to is an awk- variable, but your file is written from a (sub-) shell, where "i" is not defined (were it, it needed a $ sign for evaluation). Plus, awk's print is lost - you're not reading stdin anywhere in the shell.
- formatting/indenting the awk- script nicely will make it way more readable and understandable!
fixed! it's working now. thank you Smilie
 

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