🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Jul26.033811.21614@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, merritt@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H. Merritt) writes:
|> Explain why the following 'nawk' program produces:
[ output deleted ]

|> Here is the program:
|> ---- cut test.nawk ----
|> BEGIN {
|> 	printf("This is the BEGIN section\n");
|> }
|> 
|> 	{ printf("%s %s %s\n",$1,$2,$3) | "cat" }
|> 
|> END {
|> 	close("cat")
|> 	printf("This is the END section\n");
|> }

Already there is misunderstanding about what I want in the way of answers.
I want a solution to getting the same output when seeing the output
at the terminal or redirecting it to a file.  Answers of the form:
"Don't pipe it into cat." are not what I want to see.  In my real problem,
I am piping the output into sort (or anything else) and the BEGIN and
END sections are more complicated.  This example was the
shortest nawk program which illustrates the problem.

I WANT THE PIPE TO REMAIN.

If there is something like 'fflush' in AWK, that would be great.
So far 'close' was the closest thing I found, but the exact syntax eludes
me -- if it is the right thing at all.


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