Problem Piping iostat -c to awk!

[Hakim Singhji]

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Hi Everyone,

I am having problems with a shell script that I am writing. I am looking
to pipe the output of iostat to awk however the shell is hanging... even
at the command line it hangs. The code looks like this:

	# iostat -c 300 2 | egrep -v '[a-zA-Z]|^$' | awk '{print $1}'

This code hangs for me... now when I just pipe iostat through the
egreped patter it is fine. It's when it is passed to awk that I have
problems... now of course if I simplify the output to:

	# iostat | egrep -v '[a-zA-Z]|^$' | awk '{print $1}'

it works just fine... so it has to be the awk. What is the problem?

Best,
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Hakim Singhji
New York University
"But where danger is, grows the saving power also" (qtd. in Heidegger 28).
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