Re: [bug-gawk] mktemp ?

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:46:32AM +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> Does anyone have a clue why 
> 
> gawk 'BEGIN { "mktemp" | getline this; "mktemp" | getline that; print this " 
> AND " that }'
> 
> does only produce one tempfile?

This is not a bug report.  Such questions belong in comp.lang.awk.

Here's a clue for you:

gawk 'BEGIN {cmd = "mktemp"; cmd | getline this; close(cmd); cmd | getline 
that; print this " AND " that }'

> On top of that,
> 
> print "Something" >this
> 
> will actually append to the tempfile and not overwrite it as a
> single ">" usually does.

Please read the manual.

Regards,
Andy