Question

The default action if selection_criteria is missing is ____

(a) print

(b) split

(c) print and split

(d) no default action

The question was posed to me in an international level competition.

I want to ask this question from Various Operations using Awk Command in section Awk – An Advanced Filter & Perl – The Master Manipulator of Unix

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) print

For explanation: If the selection_criteria is missing in awk command statement then the default action i.e. print is applied.