Re: [bug-gawk] -i infile unexpected behavior

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:43:28AM -0500, Ed Morton wrote:
> I fully understand that. My expectation is that a print in the END section
> would write to the last file read and more importantly I would expect `-i
> inplace ... ENDFILE` to behave like:
> 
>    $ cat file
>    foo
>    $ sed -i '$abar' file
>    $ cat file
>    foo
>    bar

Here is the equivalent in gawk:

bash-4.2$ echo foo > file
bash-4.2$ gawk -e '1; ENDFILE {print "bar"}' -i inplace file
bash-4.2$ cat file
foo
bar

I think that's not too shabby.

Regards,
Andy