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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Guenter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Awk
Message-ID: <78670001@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 05:30:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.115420.21315@daimi.aau.dk>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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In comp.unix.misc, ezra@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@hplabs.hp.com