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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk file redirection issue Post 303009259 by Corona688 on Monday 11th of December 2017 02:57:04 PM
Old 12-11-2017
awk file redirection issue
So I'm writing a script which tries to parse human-readable addresses. Part of it is this:

Code:
print $2, implode(A,1,AN," "), CITY, PROV, POST, COUNTRY, CITYCOUNT>2;

CITYCOUNT is a variable between 0 and 3 counting the number of words in a city name. I'm trying to prnt 1 wherever that's greater than two, so I know which rows just might need manual intervention. The issue is that it doesn't compare CITYCOUNT and 2, it prints into a file named 2!

That awk promote an unquoted value into a string without being asked is pretty unusual, isn't it? What's going on?
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