bin/63886: print redirection broken in awk
Jason Bacon
bacon at smithers.neuro.mcw.edu
Sun Mar 7 09:40:14 PST 2004
>Number: 63886
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: print redirection broken in awk
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 07 09:40:13 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Bacon
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Medical College of Wisconsin
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD smithers.neuro.mcw.edu 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 19 13:09:05 CST 2004 bacon at smithers.neuro.mcw.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/smithers i386
>Description:
The print command within /usr/bin/awk under FreeBSD 5.x no
longer accepts concatenated strings for filenames after the
redirection symbol '>'.
For example:
awk ' { print "hello" > FILENAME"."NR }' file
produces the error:
awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
{ print "sadfsad" > >>> FILENAME"." <<<
awk: illegal statement at source line 1
The same error does not occur under FreeBSD 4.9, or with gawk.
Parenthesizing the filename eliminates this error, but instead
produces another:
awk ' { print "sadfsad" > (FILENAME"."NR) }' filename
awk: filename.18 makes too many open files
input record number 18, file filename
source line number 1
>How-To-Repeat:
awk ' { print "hello" > FILENAME"."NR }' file
>Fix:
Workaround: use gawk
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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