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From: tad@prism.gatech.EDU (Tad K. Mannes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Awk oddity
Message-ID: <2291@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 89 10:05:28 GMT
References: <9150@elsie.UUCP> <708@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: tad@hydra.gatech.edu.UUCP (Tad K. Mannes)
Organization: Office of Computing Services, Georgia Tech
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In article <708@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
> A three-part exercise:
> 
> 1.	Write and test an awk script to print all input lines that contain
> 	the character 'x'.
> 2.	Write and test an awk script to print all input lines that contain
> 	the character '='.
> 3.	Comment on the results.
>

	Whats wrong with the following scripts?

	awk '/\x/'

	awk '/\=/'

	That was'nt too difficult...
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Tad K. Mannes
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