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From: reo@cbnews.cb.att.com (robert.e.o'brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: awk problem
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.104858.26935@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 10:48:58 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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This is embarrassingly simple, but I can't figure it out.  The awk book 
by the Aho, Kernigan, and Weinberger have info about piping in input
using the getline function.

When I try (see p. 62 of book which has "date" | getline d):

{ "date" | getline d 
print d }

I get:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

I've tried a number of variations on this.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Bob O'Brien