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From: lewis@tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk script
Keywords: awk, ps, kill
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:13:32 GMT
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Subject: Re: awk script
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In article <1991Mar18.193118.17247@athena.mit.edu> you write:
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>you can't just give a field and expect awk to print it -- you have to tell awk
>to print it.

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! See page 10 of the nawk book or Section 2.2 (page 3) of
the original Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger paper.  The default action is
to print $0.