Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!kg From: kg@hplabs.UUCP (Ken Greer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: awk Message-ID: <2527@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:33:31 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.2527 Posted: Thu Mar 8 19:33:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 10:24:27 EST References: <2636@alice.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 12 Path: hplabs!hao!seismo!harpo!ulysses!allegra!alice!rob Subject: awk awk deliberately places all output redirected to the same file name onto the same file descriptor. it is not a bug; do not change awk's behaviour. The current (bizarre) action is not documented. Additionally, the awk documentation indicates that the >, >>, and | work the same as in the shell. So what's the basis of your claim? -- Ken Greer