[PLUG] bash and awk strangeness

[Daniel Herrington]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Daniel Herrington wrote:
>
> >      host=$(awk '{ print "wtf:" $m }')
>
> Daniel,
>
>    Your awk statement begins by printing the string, wtf: and that is why
> you
> see that in the output.
>
>    As Paul wrote, show us the input file and we can examine the output
> relative to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
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The file:
foo
bar
baz
bunt

awk seems to be able to read bar in the file before the echo "before
testing:" statement(line 8). Actually, it clearly has to, I just don't
understand why:

Starting script
before testing: foo
foo :: wtf:bar
wtf:baz
wtf:bunt

The code for "before testing: should be read for each run of the for loop,
and should occur before the awk gets called. If I comment out the awk line,
I get the loop behavior I would expect. In fact, I think the for loop is
actually superflous, as the while itself should just loop.

Also:

SunOS svanyc587 5.10 Generic_150400-13 sun4v sparc sun4v

-- 
Daniel B. Herrington