awk does not copy input lines to its output unless asked; you can
ask with either an explicit "print" or an empty action.
Using an input file like:
gibberish
stuff
this doesn't match
here is some garbola
I don't want this file in the ouptut
here's some more stuff
and another line
and another
an
David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Of
> course, one of the other interesting issues with the above patch is that
> awk was whining about the empty regex ("//"). Since the idea was
> apparently to do nothing for such a re
>From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 03 Nov 2001 03:34:01 +0100
>> course, one of the other interesting issues with the above patch is that
>> awk was whining about the empty regex ("//"). Since the idea was
>> apparently to do nothing for such a record, it seemed simpler to jus
David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, I tried that. Maybe I should have put it in braces, but I
> thought I tried that, too. Hmmm... I can hack on the build machine a
> bit... I was aware that sed, by default, would print its input to
> output, but had thought that awk would n
