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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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- In article <1991May14.185737.15746@uunet.uu.net> arnold@audiofax.com writes:
- > One of the things that happened when new awk was first realeased was a lot
- > of cleaning up and consistencizing (if I may coin a term) of the awk language.
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- I don't see how that makes things any more consistent. If you look at the
- grammer there's no ambiguity that needs to be resolved by adding that
- semicolon. Does anyone have an idea what the reasoning behind this was?
- To me, it adds confusion by treating a block as a statement.
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- Oh, and my V.3.2 system has no problem with that:
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- % ls -l | awk 'NF==9 { h[$3] += $5 } END {for(i in h) print i,h[i]}'
- root 7985
- peter 731662
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- (from a script I have lying around)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 71
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