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Shiwang Kalkhanda
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Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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The print statement

So far, we have been using print statements mainly to produce simple yet standardized output. With a print statement, we specify the expressions to print as a list separated by commas. The output is separated by single spaces, followed by a newline. The print statement has two forms:

print expr1, expr2, ……, exprn
print (expr1, expr2, ………, exprn)

Both print the string value of each expression separated by the Output Field Separator (OFS); the default is a single space followed by the Output Record Separator (ORS); the default is newline. Using parentheses is necessary if an expression uses the > relational operator to mark its differentiation from redirection operator. Here expression could be any AWK expression or any constant string, or number, or field of current input record (like $1, $2, ... and so on). Numeric values...

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Shiwang Kalkhanda

Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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