Re: [bug-gawk] -i infile unexpected behavior

[Ed Morton]

Andy -

> On 3/15/2015 11:26 AM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > The "inplace" include file contains an ENDFILE rule that terminates the 
> > inplace processing. Consider an alternative approach: bash-4.2$ awk 'ENDFILE 
> > {print "bar"}; @include "inplace"' file bash-4.2$ cat file bar bash-4.2$ This 
> > includes the "inplace" ENDFILE rule after yours, so that the print occurs 
> > before the "inplace" processing is terminated. In other words, the ordering 
> > of the ENDFILE rules matters. 
Could you move the code that terminates the inplace processing from the ENDFILE 
to a BEGINFILE rule?

    Ed.