awk regex match BOF

Jason M Potter answered on February 17, 2023 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

answer awk regex match BOF

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Gawk has a special section for detecting the BOF for each processed file from command line.

awk ' BEGINFILE {print FILENAME,"BEGAN"} ' file1 file2 file3 file4
# Results
file1 ENDED
file2 ENDED
file3 BEGAN
file4 BEGAN

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