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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: System() in AWK
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.142143.9760@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 14:21:43 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.043525.25646@agate.berkeley.edu>, gumbyltd@spam.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) writes:
|>    $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?

  Get a newer version of Unix awk that understands system().  For example, the
GNU version of awk, available for anonymous ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu
or at another friendly neighborhood GNU archive site near you.

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