Re: "sed" question

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> writes:

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.

Without braces, the default action takes place, which is ``{print}''.