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From: tigger@homxc.UUCP (K.VENNER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: AWK and the system() command
Message-ID: <776@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 12:40:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 12:40:08 1987
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To all you netlanders:

Here I sit, trying to write some utilities to handle distribution
lists, labels and electronic mail.  What I am really trying
to do is replace a single line within a file with the output
of either a shell script or the output of a whole different file.

I am attempting to do something identical to the idea of
the  "#include (filename)" statement within a "C" program.

The awk program would look like:

    awk ' $1 == "The proper line" {system("cat file1") }' 

Looking at the technical document on AWK (doc # 11272-850619-06TM)
page 24 is an example of what I am trying to accomplish.

Any suggestions, I am totally baffled, and right now the Unix
counseling at my site is too busy to get too much headway on 
this problem.
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