printing from awk into the stderr

[Rob Lemley]

In <785 at rubikon.UUCP> toad at rubikon.UUCP (Peter Cleve) writes:

>>Is it possible to "print" from awk to the stderr?

>	print "foo bar" | "cat 1>&2"

>In nawk (comes with newer unix releases) or with gawk you can try :

>	print "foo bar" > /dev/stderr

>This solution does not have the overhead of starting a new process for
>every burst of output.

Neither solution starts a new process for EVERY burst of output.
The first solution starts a process for all output piped to the
string "cat 1>&2", no matter how many instances of the string are
piped into.

The difference is ONE process.

Rob
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