Re: Garbled print order

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:25:36 +0200
> From: "Blayer-Gat Alon" <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> address@hidden:~]$ ipconfig | awk '$1 == "IP" {print
> $NF"suffix" }'
> suffix8.0.100
> 
> Not ok
> 
> address@hidden:~]$ ipconfig | awk '$1 == "IP" {print
> "prefix"$NF"suffix" }'
> suffix192.168.0.100
> 
> Not ok

It's not a Gawk bug.  Try "ipconfig | od -c", and you will see that
each line ends with a "\r\r\n".  The extra \r before the usual Windows
"\r\n" end-of-line marker causes the problem.

Why ipconfig outputs lines with this strange EOL, I don't know.