Re: [bug-gawk] mktemp ?

[Cedric Sodhi]

Thank you Andy.

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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