AWK system and close functions

[Harald Fuchs]

randy at amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Randy Sebra <randy>) writes:
>     I have tried unsuccessfully to use the 'system' and 'close'
>functions in an AWK script.

>awk '{ system("ls -lg /etc") }' /dev/null
>awk '{ system("ls -lg /etc > /tmp/list") }' /dev/null

Anything between { and } is executed for each input line (unless a
pattern is specified). Since there are no input lines, nothing is executed.
Besides that, your script is syntactically OK.
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Harald Fuchs <fuchs at it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de at relay.cs.net> ...
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