Awk

[Guenter Steinbach]

In comp.unix.misc, ezra at daimi.aau.dk (Thomas Ravnholt) writes:

>   I have a little question about awk (nawk).

>   If I want to run a unix-command in an awk-script,
> how do I get the output into a variable.

In nawk, I do

"unixcommand" | getline x

or even

"unixcommand" arguments_from_awk | getline x

to stuff the output of unixcommand into variable x.

Good luck.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach at hplabs.hp.com