Re: Garbled print order

[John.Cowan]

Blayer-Gat Alon scripsit:

> address@hidden:~]$ ipconfig | awk '$1 == "IP" {print
> $NF"suffix" }'
> suffix8.0.100

This is not a gawk bug.  (I got suspicious when I saw that mawk failed
in the same way.)  Despite appearances, the actual output is

                10.90.0.159\r\rsuffix\n

This arises because "ipconfig" is a native Windows utility and outputs
\r\n at the end of each line.  Cygwin assumes that text read from a
pipe has proper \n terminators, and therefore the \r at the end of each
line is not stripped and is treated by awk as part of the last field.
(I'm not quite clear why there are two of them.)

The following approach will work:

$ ipconfig | dos2unix | awk '$1 == "IP" {print $NF"suffix" }'
10.90.0.159suffix

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