[ale] Riddle me this awk man

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey Myers)]

Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> I still wonder whether it's something to do with the actual number of 
> fields.  If the lines that you think have a single field end or begin 
> with a space, awk will think there is a null field.

Okay, the above assumption is wrong, but the below I think is your 
issue.  NR == 1 only for the first record.

> 
> Wait a minute.  Should you be using NF not NR?  NF == number of fields
> NR == number of records.


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