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From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using pipes within awk programs
Summary: Ultrix may have a problem
Keywords: awk, pipe
Message-ID: <3521@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 88 20:07:34 GMT
References: <515@root44.co.uk> <2138@geac.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 16

In article <2138@geac.UUCP>, ivor@geac.UUCP (Ivor Williams) writes:
> In article <515@root44.co.uk> you write:
> >	who | awk '{ print $1 | "sort" }'
> >gives the same output as
> >	who | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort
> 
> FYI, the two *don't* give the same results under Ultrix T2.0-1I.

Then Ultrix must be seriously broken, to not allow standard
usage of sort and awk. Diff shows identical output for the above
two command lines, under BSD4.3 (old awk) and SysV rel2 (new awk).

John Rupley
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