Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:27:34 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: awk getline question/odditiy -- nevermind :-) Message-ID: <20020702152734.GA99249@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20020702060553.GA72170@luke.immure.com> References: <20020702060553.GA72170@luke.immure.com>
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I have discovered the answer. I had failed to "close" the command after
the while loop. Adding a close function to my little example program
like this fixes the problem:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
{
while ($0 | getline line > 0)
print line
close($0)
}
Thanks,
Bob
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