Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:45:09 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: Rob <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stumped... . Message-ID: <20040118074234.J602@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <007d01c3dd7d$d0917530$a4b826cb@goo> References: <20040118030911.GA18161@tao.thought.org> <20040117215110.R602@grond.sourballs.org> <007d01c3dd7d$d0917530$a4b826cb@goo>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Rob wrote:
> David Fleck wrote on Sunday January 18, 2004:
> > Well, you didn't mention awk, but...
> >
> >
> > awk '$0 ~ /^PATTERN/ {x=1}; {if (x!=1) print $0}' < foo > bar
>
> Wouldn't it be neater to do
>
> nawk '/^PATTERN/ { exit } ; { print }'
>
> ?
Why, yes, it would. 'awk' works with that, as well.
What does 'nawk' do that 'awk' doesn't? I've got both binaries on my
system, but the nawk manpage is just a link to awk(1).
--
David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com
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