Printing Output

One of the most common actions is to print, or output, some or all of the input. You use the print statement for simple output. You use the printf statement for fancier formatting. Both are described in this chapter.

• Print: The print statement.
• Print Examples: Simple examples of print statements.
• Output Separators: The output separators and how to change them.
• OFMT: Controlling Numeric Output With print.
• Printf: The printf statement.
• Redirection: How to redirect output to multiple files and pipes.
• Special Files: File name interpretation in gawk. gawk allows access to inherited file descriptors.
• Close Files And Pipes: Closing Input and Output Files and Pipes.

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