PolyAwk - AWK question

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <17886 at cup.portal.com> MJB at cup.portal.com (Martin J
Brown-Jr) writes:
>[He asks why this works:
>
>  awk '$0 !~ /Command:*/ { print $0 >"d:foo" }'
>
>while this doesn't:
>
>  awk '$0 !~ /Command:*/ { print $0 >"d:foo" } "d:file.txt"'
>]

What you really mean to do is this:

  awk '$0 !~ /Command:*/ { print $0 >"d:foo" }' d:file.txt
  
Since you included the filename inside the single quotes, awk thought
it was part of the awk command sequence.  This way, it will be passed
to awk as a separate argument as it should.

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