awk输出方式，使用>与>>定向到某个文件时有没有差别？

Question

试了下貌似>也可以追加（不会覆盖）到文件，纠结啊，求高人指点
cat a.txt
a|1
b|2
c|3
d|4

awk -F"|" '{if($1=="a"||$1=="b"){$2=$1;print $0 > "a.out"}else{print $0 > "a.out"}}' a.txt
cat a.out
a a
b b
c 3
d 4
awk -F"|" '{if($1=="a"||$1=="b"){$2=$1;print $0 >> "a.out"}else{print $0 >> "a.out"}}' a.txt
cat a.out
a a
b b
c 3
d 4
没有差别？

Answer 1

awk 里 >> myfile 的意思是如果myfile已然存在, awk的输出不会覆盖myfile原有的内容,而是追加在其后
而 > myfile; 若myfile 已存在,awk输出overwrite原有内容
>>追加而不覆盖, 不是指awk后面输出的行覆盖先前输出的行

Answer 2

你确定你自己亲自尝试过？！为什么我尝试的就是正常的呢

[root@localhost ~]# awk -F"|" '{if($1=="a"||$1=="b"){$2=$1;print $0 > "a.out"}else{print $0 > "a.out"}}' a.txt
[root@localhost ~]# cat a.tout
cat: a.tout: 没有那个文件或目录
[root@localhost ~]# cat a.out
a a
b b
c|3
d|4
[root@localhost ~]# awk -F"|" '{if($1=="a"||$1=="b"){$2=$1;print $0 >> "a.out"}else{print $0 >> "a.out"}}' a.txt
[root@localhost ~]# cat a.out
a a
b b
c|3
d|4
a a
b b
c|3
d|4

Answer 3

print items > output-file

This redirection prints the items into the output file named output-file. The file name output-file can be any expression. Its value is changed to a string and then used as a file name (see Expressions).

When this type of redirection is used, the output-file is erased before the first output is written to it. Subsequent writes to the same output-file do not erase output-file, but append to it. (This is different from how you use redirections in shell scripts.) If output-file does not exist, it is created. For example, here is how an awk program can write a list of peoples’ names to one file named name-list, and a list of phone numbers to another file named phone-list:

$awk '{ print $2 > "phone-list">print $1 > "name-list" }' mail-list$cat phone-list-| 555-5553
-| 555-3412
…
$cat name-list-| Amelia
-| Anthony
…


Each output file contains one name or number per line.

print items >> output-file

This redirection prints the items into the preexisting output file named output-file. The difference between this and the single-‘>’ redirection is that the old contents (if any) of output-file are not erased. Instead, the awk output is appended to the file. If output-file does not exist, then it is created.