On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote: > wmiir read /event | awk '/./ { print; fflush() } END { print "" }'
What's the purpose of awk here? I see the same result both with and without awk in Arch Linux with awk = GNU Awk 3.1.8. # i=0; wmiir read /event | while read; do i=`expr $i + 1`; echo $i-$REPLY; done # i=0; wmiir read /event | awk '/./ { print; fflush() } END { print "" }' | while read; do i=`expr $i + 1`; echo $i-$REPLY; done