System() in AWK

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1991Apr11.043525.25646 at agate.berkeley.edu>, gumbyltd at spam.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) writes:
|>    $1 == "#include" {system(type $2)}
|> Now I'd like to something like this in UNIX
|> (with 'cat' instead of 'type'), but AWK 
|> doesn't seem to recognize system().  Any clues?

  Get a newer version of Unix awk that understands system().  For example, the
GNU version of awk, available for anonymous ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu
or at another friendly neighborhood GNU archive site near you.

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