Awk
Guenter Steinbach
steinbac at hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com
Tue Mar 12 15:30:26 AEST 1991
In comp.unix.misc, ezra at daimi.aau.dk (Thomas Ravnholt) writes:
> I have a little question about awk (nawk).
> If I want to run a unix-command in an awk-script,
> how do I get the output into a variable.
In nawk, I do
"unixcommand" | getline x
or even
"unixcommand" arguments_from_awk | getline x
to stuff the output of unixcommand into variable x.
Good luck.
Guenter Steinbach gunter_steinbach at hplabs.hp.com
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