Output Exercises (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

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5.12 Exercises

1. Rewrite the program:

   awk 'BEGIN { print "Month Crates" print "----- ------" } { print $1, " ", $2 }' inventory-shipped

   from Output Separators, by using a new value of OFS.
2. Use the printf statement to line up the headings and table data for the inventory-shipped example that was covered in The print Statement.
3. What happens if you forget the double quotes when redirecting output, as follows:

   BEGIN { print "Serious error detected!" > /dev/stderr }