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[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:17:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Replying to my own message: I found a point for improvement.
> Why use grep when awk can grep by itself?
> 
> % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf("%s %s\n", $4, gsub("noun", "n.", $3)); }'
> 
> Ah, much better. :-)
> 

	Thanks for the clue[s], :)

	$3 isn't only an lvalue, it's a constant.  My bad in my first try.  
	What you have above prints:

	foot 1  // noun
	foot 0  // verb

	so doesn't work entirely, but is a good start.  (BTW, man gsub turned up
	nothing, so I'm assuming thhat gsub it part of awk.  And [gn]awk.)
	Um, no, same with nawk, gawk, awk.

	gary


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