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Old 12-04-2008
I have a question. My script is like this at the moment.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {RS=ORS="\n\n"}


//{
      gsub("\t", "\n")
}

$1=$1


END {}

Why won´t if make a new line? It recognizes the tabs and if I replaced it let`s say with the letter "a" then it worked. But why wont it make a new line in this case?
As I understand it is somehow in conflict with the $1=$1 part. Cause when I did gsub to the input file and just printed it out, then it worked.

Any suggestions of how to fix it?

Thanks!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)