Re: Garbled print order

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:54:07 -0500
> From: "John.Cowan" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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.

No, "\r\n" is what a native Windows utility _should_ have output at
the end of each line.  However, ipconfig outputs "\r\r\n" instead, as
"od -c" reveals.