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From: toad@rubikon.UUCP (Peter Cleve)
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Subject: Re: printing from awk into the stderr
Keywords: awk
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Date: 8 Feb 91 16:33:20 GMT
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eitan@mlacus.oz (Eitan Froumine) writes:

>Is it possible to "print" from awk to the stderr?

The standart (and portable) solution is :

	print "foo bar" | "cat 1>&2"

In nawk (comes with newer unix releases) or with gawk you can try :

	print "foo bar" > /dev/stderr

This solution does not have the overhead of starting a new process for
every burst of output.

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