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From: jaffe@topaz.ARPA (Saul)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Possible bug in awk?
Message-ID: <1143@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 13:54:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 13:54:49 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Apr-85 04:23:22 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I have been trying to do some stuff with awk that I saw in an
example in one of the Unix books and it doesn't work as I thought.

It seems to me that the line:

echo "This is a test" | awk {$1 = "Foo"; print}

should print out "Foo is a test" but all I get when I try it is the
original line.

Is this a bug in awk?  If I specify that I want $1, $2 etc printed
I get the correct values.

If this is a bug does anyone know of a fix???
-- 
Saul Jaffe
Systems Programmer
Rutgers University
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