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From: booker@network.ucsd.edu (Booker bense)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: awk
Keywords: getline
Message-ID: <3802@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 90 15:58:03 GMT
References: <8678@mirsa.inria.fr>
Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD
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In article <8678@mirsa.inria.fr> mmartin@orphee.inria.fr (Michel MARTIN) writes:
>When I type
>
>	awk ' { while (getline <"lettre" > 0 ) } '
>
>I've an error like 
>
>	awk: syntax error near line 1
>	awk: illegal statement near line 1
>
>Does someone knows a solution please
>tanks a lot

- You probably have an older version of awk than the one documented in the 
book " The Awk Programming Language" by A. W. & K. . The one in the book
doesn't come with most unix systems. You have to buy it from ATT. They
also have a nifty tool I wish we could get which takes awk programs and 
writes c code. 

I haven't found a way to get older awk to read more than one file. Mostly
I get around this by using multiple awk programs that pipe output into 
each other. 

Booker C. Bense

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