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From: reo@cbnews.cb.att.com (robert.e.o'brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.094217.13625@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 09:42:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.143542.28233@cbnewsl.att.com>
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nawk did the trick.  Thanks John and others who pointed this o
ut.

Bob

From article <1991Apr23.143542.28233@cbnewsl.att.com>, by urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban):
> In article <1991Apr23.104858.26935@cbnews.cb.att.com> reo@cbnews.cb.att.com (robert.e.o'brien) writes:
>>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.
>>
> 
> Under UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 (and Release 4.0) there are two versions of
> awk.  Plain old awk and nawk.  Nawk is new awk.  nawk supports alot of things
> that awk does not (e.g. system("cmd") and your example above.
> 
> Type in:
> 
> $ type nawk
> 
> If you got nawk, then your run program on that.  On my machine, your program
> ran fine with nawk and died with awk.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> John Urban