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From: gumbyltd@spam.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: System() in AWK
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Date: 11 Apr 91 04:35:25 GMT
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In a DOS implementation of AWK there is a system
function, which I've grown to rely on chiefly
to import contents of files into the final output.
For example:
   $1 == "#include" {system(type $2)}
Now I'd like to something like this in UNIX
(with 'cat' instead of 'type'), but AWK 
doesn't seem to recognize system().  Any clues?
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