Re: chomp a newline in awk

Ewww. awk.

gsub( "\n", "" );
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will remove all newlines in $0, if that's what you're looking for. I suppose you could anchor it with $

gsub( /\n$/, "" );
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to be more like chomp.

update: Oops! Looks like a is right. I based my assertion on the fact that

% cat foo | awk '{ gsub(/\n$/,""); printf("%s", $0); }'

printed out foo as a single line. But take out the gsub and you're okay too. Oh well.

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Re: Re: chomp a newline in awk by a (Friar) on Jan 18, 2001 at 10:01 UTC
Doesn't awk (nawk) automatically chomp? 'least-wise, all my scripts (whoops - old scripts, really ;-) never worry about it: print adds \n back automatically. a	[reply]