Supressing new-lines in awk output

[Paul S. Sawyer]

In article <21638 at conexch.UUCP>, root at conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
> Is there a way to supress the newline at the end of awk's print output?
> 
> Given:
> 
> 	awk '{print $1}' filename
> 
Try:

	awk '{ printf ("%s ", $1) }' filename

(You would need

	awk '{ printf ("%s\n", $1) }' filename

to equal the unformatted awk "print" statement)  You can also do tricks with
setting a variable to be a space for, say 5 input lines and a newline on the
sixth for six column output.  Awk is really quite versatile (even oawk), if
you are stubborn enough!