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From: lotus!steveng@GARP.MIT.EDU (Stephen Ng)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Bug in gawk.
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Date: 24 Apr 89 22:24:23 GMT
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I'm using gawk 2.01beta 13 Dec 1988.

The following command incorrectly produces no output:

ls | gawk ' { while (getline > 0) print $0 } '

However, this line does work (it produces a listing of the directory):

ls | gawk ' { while ((getline) > 0) print $0 } '