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From: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: cascading pipes in awk
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <813@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 23 May 89 18:11:08 GMT
Reply-To: psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Is there a way to cascade pipes in awk? I'm trying to do something
like the following:
    { print | "tr [a-z] [A-Z]" | <<other stuff that will manipulate the
				   now-upper-case text >>
    }

Any other suggestions to accomplish the same thing would be
appreciated.