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Old 05-21-2014
awk Strange behaviour in AIX
Can someone please explain the strange behaviour.. I was just trying a few things to learn awk..

in the below code when I start the braces in the same line, the output is as expected, when I start at next line, output is displayed twice.

Please see the file, code I tried and output below.

File contents:

cat d_exp
BEG
Id Job1
Id Stage1
1
EN
Id Job2
Id Stage2
BEG
Id2 Job3
Id Stage4
2
EN

Code:
awk '/BEG/,/EN/ {
print
}' d_*
-- Output as expected
BEG
  Id  Job1
  Id  Stage1
1
EN
BEG
  Id2 Job3
  Id  Stage4
2
EN

Braces in next line
 
awk '/BEG/,/EN/
{  #Next line
print
}' d_*

BEG
BEG
  Id  Job1
  Id  Job1
  Id  Stage1
  Id  Stage1
1
1
EN
EN
  Id  Job2
  Id  Stage2
BEG
BEG
  Id2 Job3
  Id2 Job3
  Id  Stage4
  Id  Stage4
2
2
EN
EN


Everyline is printed twice in the above output

Can someone please explain this? What am I missing here?
Last edited by Kulasekar; 05-21-2014 at 01:26 PM.. Reason: Could not complete the pervious message
# 2  
Old 05-21-2014
Yes? where is it then?
# 3  
Old 05-21-2014
Simple

Code:
awk '/BEG/,/EN/
{  #Next line
print
}' d_*

is not equal to

Code:
awk '/BEG/,/EN/{ print }' d_*

as you can see newline

Example see difference
Code:
akshay@Aix:~$ echo 1 | awk '/1/ \
{print}'
1

Code:
akshay@Aix:~$ echo 1 | awk '/1/  
{print}'
1
1


Quote:
Originally Posted by Kulasekar
Can someone please explain the strange behaviour.. I was just trying a few things to learn awk..

in the below code when I start the braces in the same line, the output is as expected, when I start at next line, output is displayed twice.

Please see the file, code I tried and output below.

File contents:

cat d_exp
BEG
Id Job1
Id Stage1
1
EN
Id Job2
Id Stage2
BEG
Id2 Job3
Id Stage4
2
EN

Code:
awk '/BEG/,/EN/ {
print
}' d_*
-- Output as expected
BEG
  Id  Job1
  Id  Stage1
1
EN
BEG
  Id2 Job3
  Id  Stage4
2
EN

Braces in next line
 
awk '/BEG/,/EN/
{  #Next line
print
}' d_*

BEG
BEG
  Id  Job1
  Id  Job1
  Id  Stage1
  Id  Stage1
1
1
EN
EN
  Id  Job2
  Id  Stage2
BEG
BEG
  Id2 Job3
  Id2 Job3
  Id  Stage4
  Id  Stage4
2
2
EN
EN


Everyline is printed twice in the above output

Can someone please explain this? What am I missing here?
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