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From: rob@b15.INGR.COM (Rob Lemley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: printing from awk into the stderr
Keywords: awk
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Date: 14 Feb 91 14:10:41 GMT
References: <728@mlacus.oz> <785@rubikon.UUCP>
Organization: Intergraph Huntsville
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In <785@rubikon.UUCP> toad@rubikon.UUCP (Peter Cleve) writes:

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

>	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.

Neither solution starts a new process for EVERY burst of output.
The first solution starts a process for all output piped to the
string "cat 1>&2", no matter how many instances of the string are
piped into.

The difference is ONE process.

Rob
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