Re: [bug-gawk] mktemp ?

[Andrew J. Schorr]

My apologies.  I guess I also need to read the manual. :-)
I always imagined that comp.lang.awk should be used for language questions.
I wonder if there should be a gawk-users mailing list.

Regards,
Andy

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Cedric is correct - the list is for more than just bug reports.
> 
> Andy is also correct - your questions are all answered in the manual. :-)
> 
> But in brief, once a pipeline has produced all the output it is going
> to, such as in this case, you must first close it before starting
> another one.  And awk is different than shell: > truncates the file
> the first time it's used, but it then stays open until you close it.
> 
> Thanks to both of you,
> 
> Arnold
> 
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:46:03 +0100
> > From: Cedric Sodhi <address@hidden>
> > To: "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] mktemp ?
> >
> > Thank you Andy.
> >
> > Please note that the description of this mailing list on
> >
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=gawk
> >
> > says "gawk bug reports, enhancement requests, and all else." and
> > another, detailled description at
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gawk
> >
> > says "Bug reports and all discussion about gawk.".
> >
> > regards,
> > Cedric
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:53:28PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:46:32AM +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have a clue why 
> > > > 
> > > > gawk 'BEGIN { "mktemp" | getline this; "mktemp" | getline that; print 
> > > > this " AND " that }'
> > > > 
> > > > does only produce one tempfile?
> > > 
> > > This is not a bug report.  Such questions belong in comp.lang.awk.
> > > 
> > > Here's a clue for you:
> > > 
> > > gawk 'BEGIN {cmd = "mktemp"; cmd | getline this; close(cmd); cmd | 
> > > getline that; print this " AND " that }'
> > > 
> > > > On top of that,
> > > > 
> > > > print "Something" >this
> > > > 
> > > > will actually append to the tempfile and not overwrite it as a
> > > > single ">" usually does.
> > > 
> > > Please read the manual.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Andy
> 

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