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From: dph@beta.UUCP (David P Huelsbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using pipes within awk programs
Message-ID: <14377@beta.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 00:36:33 GMT
References: <515@root44.co.uk> <537@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dph@LANL.GOV.ARPA (David P Huelsbeck)
Organization: Los Alamos Natl. Labs, Los Alamos, NM
Lines: 43
Keywords: awk, pipe
Summary: awk book is on the *new* awk

In article <537@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <515@root44.co.uk>, gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) ask
>about using pipes within awk programs.
>
>This feature is described in the book
>	The AWK Programming Language
>	Aho, Kernighan, & Weinberger
>	Addison-Wesley
>	ISBN 0-201-07981-X
>	US$ 22
>
	[...]
>
>Page 59 (Closing Files and Pipes):
>	close("...")
>closes a pipe or a file.
>
	
	I believe that this feature is not common
	to most awks.  It will not work for most
	poor folks with the plain old vanilla awk,

>Anyone who is interested in mastering AWK should at least read this
>book.  It describes the latest version, so there are some features
>(like user-defined functions, alas) which may not be available in
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the version you're using.  The latest version is available for MS-DOS...
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	What are they charging for the new version?
	Does it come with source or does that cost
	you mega-dollars?  

	Poor folks can get GNU awk (gawk) from prep.ai.mit.edu.
	I've never tried it, but from the source I'd say it's
	not new-awk-compatable.


	David Huelsbeck
	dph@lanl.gov.arpa
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