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From: ericw@janis.UUCP (Eric Wedaa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Awk strangeness or misunderstandings?
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <115@janis.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 23:35:08 GMT
Organization: Basys, Sunnyvale, CA
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I've been having some troubles with awk under Ultrix 3.0 and 3.1.  I am
attempting to get a system call to function, but it just plain refuses
to work.  

For example:
    awk '{system("date")}' test.file

produces NO output.  I've tried several flavors of calling it, and it
still fails.  It also always returns a succeed result to an "if " 
statement.

Any ideas?

>>>Eric
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