PolyAwk - AWK question

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <17886 at cup.portal.com> by MJB at cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr):
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| awk '$0 !~ /Command:*/ { print $0 >"d:foo" } "d:file.txt"'
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Was this the *exact* quoting?

By putting the file name inside the single quotes, you made it part of the
awk program, *not* an input filename.  The result is that it's reading from
the keyboard so it can copy lines not containing "Command" (if this isn't
what you wanted, check that regexp!) to "d:foo", and also attempting to
apply the string "d:file.txt" as a condition.  That last might be handled
either as a test for string equality against $0, or as an always "true"
depending on how they did it.

++Brandon
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