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From: zcf1025@dpscg1.UUCP (Regina Dawley)
Newsgroups: dla.wizards,dpsc.general,dsac.ais,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: awk
Keywords: Reading a input file?
Message-ID: <501@dpscg1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 14:58:07 GMT
Organization: Defense Personnel Suport Center, Philadelphia
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Hello World,
As a novice to the Awk programming language, i'm having a
problem with my script.
First, i'm reading a data file using the getline function;
Secondly, i'm assigning the data line to $0;
Next, i'm selecting the first 5 lines from another data file
using the head command and redirecting the output to a file.
Next, i want to print $0 and append it to the file containing the 5
lines. This statement does not execute.
Does anyone have an answer?  The script follows.

                                       Thanks
                                      Regina Dawley
                                   autovon 8-444-7508
                                   215-952-7508