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Old 02-22-2005
Power two arguments with nawk program

Can someone help me to understand this part of code?

/bin/nawk -f awkfile file1 file2


I know awkfile is the one with awk script.
file1 is source file that needs to be processed.
What is file2 two?


Thanks for your help!
# 2  
Old 02-22-2005
Code:
$ awk '{ print $0 } ' file1
abcd
$ awk '{ print $0 } ' file1 file2
abcd
pqrs
$ cat file1
abcd
$ cat file2
pqrs

# 3  
Old 02-22-2005
(n)awk can take multiple files to process.
# 4  
Old 02-22-2005
Bug awk FILENAME Current filename.

Never mind.
I found FILENAME is sytem variable for awk.


awk FILENAME Current filename.

Thanks!!

Last edited by whatisthis; 02-22-2005 at 04:48 PM.. Reason: wong question
# 5  
Old 02-22-2005
Is there a system variable for nawk?

Can I use a system variable to write an if statement to code
to process two files differently?

Last edited by whatisthis; 02-22-2005 at 04:26 PM.. Reason: wrong question
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