AWK brain damage

[bob%ucla-locus at sri-unix.UUCP]

From:  Bob English <bob at ucla-locus>

I'm not sure that this is all "totally bogus".  If awk recreated
a file or re-invoked a pipe every time it executed a line,
chances are you would only get output from the last line of your
file.  That's not a very useful feature, and I don't find it
"bogus" at all.  Awk isn't a shell, it's a filter.

--bob--