Sujet : Re: "sed" question
De : gazelle (at) *nospam* shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) (gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack))
Groupes : comp.lang.awkDate : 09. Mar 2024, 16:40:04
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In article <
877cibsbja.fsf@yaxenu.org>, Julieta Shem <
jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> writes:
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On 2024-03-06, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
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$ awk '{print $1, "1-1"}' newsrc-news.eternal-september.org-test >
newsrc-news.eternal-september.org
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In this specific case of regular data you can simplify that to
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awk '$2="1-1"' sourcefile > targetfile
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That had me scratching my head. You can't have an action without
enclosing braces. But it's still legal syntax because... it's an
expression serving as a pattern. The assignment itself is a side
effect.
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Without braces, the default action takes place, which is ``{print}''.
Somehow, I think Christian knows that (since everybody knows that).
My guess is that he just doesn't like it...
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Re: "sed" question
Re: "sed" question