Wrong awk examples recently published the book of John
Linux Plötner and Steffen Wendzel also Galileo Computing as
Open Book - in my view very recommended:). In the chapter on
awk have in the examples but unfortunately Backlsashes slipped at the end of the grease marks that do not belong there. The execution of these examples leads to error messages like: awk
: Command line: 9: \\}
awk: Command line: 9: ^ backslash not last character on the line. If the question backslash is removed, the example works but again correctly - Example Listing 4.29:
$ awk 'BEGIN {
print "Here is the file content:"
}
{
print
}
END {print
"The end of file is reached."
print "Bye!"
} '/ tmp / input file Since especially newcomers to the handling of the tool
awk easily here might despair of the examples, I have the below feedback form, however, already used to set the author of the erroneous slashes in the online version thereof.
