Re: Is that problem for awk?

In article <47AC80FB.20406@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Ed Morton  <morton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
....
>You could alternatively do:
>
>awk 'BEGIN{
>	while ((getline var < ARGV[1]) > 0) {
>		sub(/./,++nr,var)
>		print var
>	}
>	close(ARGV[1])
>	exit
>}' file
>
>if you really need to fill up a file ;-). Just making the point for
>anyone else reading this that while more text can make the script
>appear to be "more readable" to non-awk-experienced procedural
>programmers, it's better to just get used to and use the awk idioms
>than get stuck in a C-like paradigm and miss all the benefits of the
>awk paradigm.
>
>	Ed.
>

Indeed.  So true.  So true.

Keep in mind that if you really want to be verbose/explicit you could
probably add some cats and greps and seds to the above command line as
well.  But that would make this more on-topic in comp.unix.shell than
here.