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strange behaviour of print

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bcklein

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Consider the following script:
echo "xyz" | awk '{ print $0, $a, $b;}'
What do you expect as a result?
I think it should be xyz, shouldn't it?

But what I get is
xyz xyz xyz

Any idea?
 
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Sorry, I was treating variables like bash! Thinks like that happen from time to time :-(
 
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