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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Awk
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Date: 8 Mar 91 13:48:36 GMT
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In article <8XTOBQT@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> admin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de writes:
>mek@michael.udev.cdc.com (Mark Kennedy) writes:
>>ezra@daimi.aau.dk (Thomas Ravnholt) writes:
>
>Using GNU-awk 2.11.1 it is easier with:
>
>awk 'BEGIN{ "date"|getline X; close("date"); print X}' /dev/null
>

Better yet, use perl :-)

perl -e '$d = `date`; print $d;'

				
						-Kartik


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