Rusty Razor Blade
Of course, I felt like an idiot after being completely confused by this for about half an hour.
Consider this:
awk "{print $1}" somefile.txt
This does not work as I had expected. The reason is because the $1 is evaluated within double quotes, (not single quotes). Yes, it’s a rookie mistake, but I never claimed to be the awk master.
So, always write:
awk '{print $1}' somefile.txt
and you will avoid a headache.
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