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Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 39
Changing the contents of a field

The first code on Page 39

awk '{ nboxes = $3 ; $3 = $3 - 10
> print nboxes, $3}' inventory-shipped

should actually return the following result:

ifiaz@nimitz:/tmp/fiaz > awk '{ nboxes = $3; $3 = $3 - 10
print nboxes, $3}' invshipped
25 15
32 22
24 14
...
...

instead of as the book shows:

13 3
15 5
15 5

which is for nboxes=$2 and $2 = $2 - 10.

 Anonymous