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Subject: Re: AWK brain damage
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 14:56:43 EST
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From:  Bob English <bob@ucla-locus>

I'm not sure that this is all "totally bogus".  If awk recreated
a file or re-invoked a pipe every time it executed a line,
chances are you would only get output from the last line of your
file.  That's not a very useful feature, and I don't find it
"bogus" at all.  Awk isn't a shell, it's a filter.

--bob--